DocumentCode
1542127
Title
Tipping Pennies? Privately Practical Anonymous Micropayments
Author
Carbunar, Bogdan ; Chen, Yao ; Sion, Radu
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Volume
7
Issue
5
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1628
Lastpage
1637
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.
Keywords
cloud computing; computer networks; financial data processing; peer-to-peer computing; ORPay implementation; P2P services; Tor; cloud-hosted services; micropayment protocols; network services; privately practical anonymous micropayments; routing micropayment solution; Cryptography; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Materials; Privacy; Protocols; Routing; Computer networks; computers and information processing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1556-6013
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TIFS.2012.2204982
Filename
6218773
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