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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Anonymity in the Mini-Blockchain scheme
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bffranca
on 10/06/2015, 00:55:05 UTC
The timing couldn't have been better.

gmaxwell, the paper is up at the following link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B21vncLoIlIyUldiZTRxSTYyNGc/view?usp=sharing. Whenever I change the paper I have to change the link so that's why you weren't able to see it. But I always keep the up-to-date link in the first post of the thread.

I have just watched your video introducing the Elements sidechain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyVvq-vrrM) and I was very impressed. I didn't expect that new features would be introduced in the first test sidechain, especially all these features. I actually read your draft about Borromean signatures before but thought that you were going use them in the same way as Cryptonite, using ring signatures as an OR proof is an innovative idea. In summation, I'm very envious.  Wink

Since my scheme offers no more privacy than using Confidential transactions + Stealth addresses, I see no reason to try to implement it. The only information that may be useful to you is that I use Boneh-Lynn-Shacham signatures which are shorter and also require less rounds of communication for threshold and blind signing than Schnorr signatures. If you're interested, the following paper https://www.iacr.org/archive/pkc2003/25670031/25670031.pdf describes the use of BLS signatures for  multi, threshold and blind signing.