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Re: Research Paper: "CoinShuffle: Practical Decentralized Coin Mixing for Bitcoin"
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TierNolan
on 24/04/2014, 12:29:30 UTC
Interesting.

More info on the blame system would be nice.

How do you handle a case where a participant refuses to send on a message to the next person?

Does each of the communications have to kept secret? 

When you say Bob -> Charlie, do you mean it is a broadcast?  Are the messages digitally signed too?

You should explain the blame stage too.

Assume that Bob cheats, he includes 2 addresses for himself.

Alice to Bob: enc(ekB, enc(ekC, enc(ekD, A')))

Bob to Charlie: enc(ekC, enc(ekD, B')) ; enc(ekC, enc(ekD, X'))

Charlie to Dave:  enc(ekD, B') ; enc(ekD, C') ; enc(ekD, X')

Dave to all: D', B', C', X'

Alice complains that her address is missing.

Each participant publishes their private key.  The process can be stepped backwards, until the "mistake" is detected.