Paper 2018/774 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2018/774 ↗

Thring Signatures and their Applications to Spender-Ambiguous Digital Currencies

Brandon Goodell
Sarang Noether
Abstract

We present threshold ring multi-signatures (thring signatures) for collaborative computation of ring signatures. We discuss a game of existential forgery for thring signatures and the uses of thring signatures in digital currencies, including spender-ambiguous cross-chain atomic swaps for confidential amounts without a trusted set-up. We present an implementation of thring signatures inspired by the works of [13], [20], [14], [1], [18], and [15] we call linkable spontaneous threshold anonymous group (LSTAG) signatures, and we prove the implementation existentially unforgeable under the plain public key and random oracle models.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2018-08-28: last updated
2018-08-27: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2018/774
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/774,
      author = {Brandon Goodell and Sarang Noether},
      title = {Thring Signatures and their Applications to Spender-Ambiguous Digital Currencies},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/774},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/774}
}
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