Abstract
The redactable blockchain provides the editability of blocks, which guarantees the data immutability of blocks while removing illegal content on the blockchain. However, the existing redactable blockchain relies on trusted assumptions regarding a single editing authority. Ateniese et al. (EuroS&P 2017) and Li et al. (TIFS 2023) proposed solutions by using threshold chameleon hash functions, but these lack accountability for malicious editing. This paper delves into this problem and proposes an accountability weight threshold blockchain editing scheme. Specifically, we first formalize the model of a redactable blockchain with accountability. Then, we introduce the novel concept of the Accountable Weight Threshold Chameleon Hash Function (AWTCH). This function collaboratively generates a chameleon hash trapdoor through a weight committee protocol, where only sets of committees meeting the weight threshold can edit data. Additionally, it incorporates a tracer to identify and hold accountable any disputing editors, thus enabling supervision of editing rights. We propose a generic construction for AWTCH. Then, we introduce an efficient construction of AWTCH and develop a redactable blockchain scheme by leveraging AWTCH. Finally, we demonstrate our scheme’s practicality. The editing efficiency of our scheme is twice that of Tian et al. (TIFS 2023) with the same number of editing blocks.
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