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XPay: Practical anonymous payments for tor routing and other networked services

  • Stony Brook University
  • Motorola

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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 ORPay for Tor), provide full anonymity (both for payers and payees), and support thousands of transactions per second.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES '09, Co-located with the 16th ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference, CCS'09
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages41-50
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781605587837
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 9 2009
Event8th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES 2009, Co-located with the 16th ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference, CCS 2009 - Chicago, IL, United States
Duration: Nov 9 2009Nov 9 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
ISSN (Print)1543-7221

Conference

Conference8th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, WPES 2009, Co-located with the 16th ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference, CCS 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago, IL
Period11/9/0911/9/09

Keywords

  • Anonymity
  • Micropayments
  • Onion routing
  • Privacy

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