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A Universally Composable Non-Interactive Aggregate Cash System

Authors:
Yanxue Jia , Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shi-Feng Sun , Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Hong-Sheng Zhou , Virginia Commonwealth University
Dawu Gu , Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Conference: ASIACRYPT 2022
Abstract: Mimblewimble is a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency, providing the functionality of transaction aggregation. Once certain coins have been spent in Mimblewimble, they can be deleted from the UTXO set. This is desirable: now storage can be saved and computation cost can be reduced. Fuchsbauer et al. (EUROCRYPT 2019) abstracted Mimblewimble as an Aggregate Cash System (ACS) and provided security analysis via game-based definitions. In this paper, we revisit the ACS, and focus on {\em Non-interactive} ACS, denoted as NiACS. We for the first time propose a simulation-based security definition and formalize an ideal functionality for NiACS. Then, we construct a NiACS protocol in a hybrid model which can securely realize the ideal NiACS functionality in the Universal Composition (UC) framework. In addition, we propose a building block, which is a variant of the ElGamal encryption scheme that may be of independent interest. Finally, we show how to instantiate our protocol, and obtain the first NiACS system with UC security.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{asiacrypt-2022-32653,
  title={A Universally Composable Non-Interactive Aggregate Cash System},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Yanxue Jia and Shi-Feng Sun and Hong-Sheng Zhou and Dawu Gu},
  year=2022
}