HSchain: Anonymous Permissioned Blockchain with Enhanced Auditability

Jipeng Hou, Lei Xu*, Liehuang Zhu, Peng Jiang, Shaorui Song

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Anonymity and auditability of transactions are two important but conflicting requirements for many blockchain-based applications. Technologies proposed to realize anonymous transactions, such as coin mixing and ring signature, make it hard to identify the participants of transactions. In this paper, we propose a system called HSchain, which enables the regulator to identify the participants while keeping the identity information hidden from nodes in the blockchain network. The proposed system uses the ring signature and the one-time public key to hide the sender and the receiver of a transaction respectively. By running a secret handshake protocol with the regulator, the sender/receiver generates a tag which is attached to the transaction to make it auditable. We carefully design the structure of the tag so that only the regulator can determine if a user has participated in a specific transaction. Simulation results demonstrate that adding such a tag to an anonymous transaction does not incur much overhead.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages130-135
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798350311709
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event3rd IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2023 - Hybrid, Venice, Italy
Duration: 31 Jul 20232 Aug 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2023

Conference

Conference3rd IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityHybrid, Venice
Period31/07/232/08/23

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • anonymous transaction
  • auditability
  • ring signature
  • secret handshake protocol

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