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Abstract | ||
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In this paper, we introduce FPPW, a new payment channel with watchtower scheme for Bitcoin. This new scheme provides fairness w.r.t. all channel participants including both channel parties and the watchtower. It means that the funds of any honest channel participant are safe even assuming that other two channel participants are corrupted and/or collude with each other. Furthermore, the watchtower in FPPW learns no information about the off-chain transactions and hence FPPW provides privacy against the watchtower. As a byproduct, we also define the coverage of a watchtower scheme, that is the total capacity of channels that a watchtower can cover on a scale of 0 to 1, and show that FPPW's coverage is higher than those of PISA and Cerberus. The scheme can be implemented without any update in Bitcoin script. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.1007/978-3-662-64331-0_8 | FINANCIAL CRYPTOGRAPHY AND DATA SECURITY, FC 2021, PT II |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Bitcoin, Security, Privacy, Payment channel, Lightning network, Generalized channel, Watchtower | Conference | 12675 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0302-9743 | 1 | 0.43 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arash Mirzaei | 1 | 1 | 0.43 |
| Amin Sakzad | 2 | 50 | 5.14 |
| Jiangshan Yu | 3 | 86 | 11.35 |
| Ron Steinfeld | 4 | 23 | 7.99 |