An Anonymous Protocol with User Identification and Linking Capabilities for User Privacy in a Permissioned Blockchainopen access
- Authors
- Ra, Gyeongjin; Seo, Deahee; Bhuiyan, Md Zakirul Alam; Lee, Imyeong
- Issue Date
- Aug-2020
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Keywords
- permissioned blockchain; privacy; pseudonym; anonymous credential system
- Citation
- Electronics (Basel), v.9, no.8
- Journal Title
- Electronics (Basel)
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 8
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/19470
- DOI
- 10.3390/electronics9081183
- ISSN
- 2079-9292
- Abstract
- A permissioned blockchain includes a user in the network after verifying the user's identity, in contrast to Bitcoin, which is a public blockchain that allows network participation without third-party approval. The two types of permissioned blockchains are private blockchains, each consisting of one server and multiple users, and consortium blockchains, which consist of groups of private blockchains. However, a blockchain has privacy issues, such as user tracking and inference. Therefore, cryptography should be applied for user privacy in a blockchain. There is a lot of research on anonymous protocols for privacy in a blockchain. In this paper, we provide a scheme for user management, i.e., identification and authorization, in a permissioned blockchain. We also propose an anonymous protocol with user identification and transaction linking capabilities provided by the private server, strictly to solve privacy concerns.
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