An Association Ring Signature for Block Chain E-Money Transactions

Abstract

Block chain is widely used in the financial field for its characteristics of decentralization, anonymity and trust. Electronic money payment is an important application hotspot. Ring signature is widely used in strong anonymous authentication such as electronic cash and electronic voting because of its unconditional anonymity, spontaneity and flexible group structure. Among them, the correlation ring signature can prove whether two signatures are issued by the same person without revealing the identity of the real signer. Therefore, the signature right breach can be avoided based on the premise of guaranteeing anonymity, such as repeated voting, electronic money repetition cost and so on. Most of the existing correlation ring signature security is based on the discrete logarithm problem, and most of the schemes result in the degradation of anonymity because of strong association. These methods do not apply to the block chain electronic currency transaction scene with strong anonymity. Therefore, this paper first proposes a blockchain-based electronic currency transaction security model. The model ensures not only the anonymity of both parties but also a certain degree of traceability. In order to support these two characteristics, this paper proposes an association ring signature method based on large integer decomposition problem. This method has strong anonymity and can be applied to blockchain scenes. On the other hand, it can be converted into group signatures in specific scenarios. It is therefore traceable. Finally, the adaptive selection message of the scheme and the unforgeability under the selection of public key attack are proved under the random oracle model.