Abstract
Privacy protection is a main goal in the majority of the Blockchain studies. However some dishonest users may abuse from the benefits of this property and the fact of not being identified to do illegal crimes. That is why several researches focus on implementing identity tracing to avoid the flaws related to privacy protection in Blockchain applications.
In this paper, we propose a Distributed Multi-Key Generation (DMKG) protocol without private channels built on the DMKG protocol of the Blockchain Traceable Scheme with Oversight Function (BTSOF) presented in [8].
Our protocol introduces a new strategy to manage complaints between participants that avoids them to publicly reveal the values of their shares of secrets. This new management of complaints and the use of public channels allow a precise identification of malicious participants. We prove that our solution satisfies the security requirements of the Verifiable Multi-Secret Sharing (VMSS) schemes and DMKG protocols.
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Kalai, R., Neji, W., Ben Rajeb, N. (2023). A Distributed Multi-key Generation Protocol with a New Complaint Management Strategy. In: Papadaki, M., Rupino da Cunha, P., Themistocleous, M., Christodoulou, K. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 464. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30694-5_12
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