Tipping pennies? Privately practical anonymous micropayments

Bogdan Carbunar; Yao Chen; Radu Sion

doi:10.1109/TIFS.2012.2204982

Tipping pennies? Privately practical anonymous micropayments

Bogdan Carbunar
, Yao Chen
, Radu Sion

Computer Science

Florida International University
Stony Brook University

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Abstract

We design and analyze the first practical anonymous payment mechanisms for network services. We start by reporting on our experience with the implementation of a routing micropayment solution for Tor. We then propose micropayment protocols of increasingly complex requirements for networked services, such as P2P or cloud-hosted services. The solutions are efficient, with bandwidth and latency overheads of under 4% and 0.9 ms, respectively, in the ORPay implementation, provide full anonymity (for both payers and payees), and support thousands of transactions per second.

Original language	English
Article number	6218773
Pages (from-to)	1628-1637
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Volume	7
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2012.2204982
State	Published - 2012

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Computer networks
computers and information processing

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