Abstract
Bitcoin is one of the most prominent examples of a distributed cryptographic protocol that is extensively used in reality. Nonetheless, existing security proofs are property-based, and as such they do not support composition.
In this work we put forth a universally composable treatment of the Bitcoin protocol. We specify the goal that Bitcoin aims to achieve as a ledger functionality in the (G)UC model of Canetti et al. [TCC’07]. Our ledger functionality is weaker than the one recently proposed by Kiayias, Zhou, and Zikas [EUROCRYPT’16], but unlike the latter suggestion, which is arguably not implementable given the Bitcoin assumptions, we prove that the one proposed here is securely UC realized under standard assumptions by an appropriate abstraction of Bitcoin as a UC protocol. We further show how known property-based approaches can be cast as special instances of our treatment and how their underlying assumptions can be cast in (G)UC without restricting the environment or the adversary.
In this work we put forth a universally composable treatment of the Bitcoin protocol. We specify the goal that Bitcoin aims to achieve as a ledger functionality in the (G)UC model of Canetti et al. [TCC’07]. Our ledger functionality is weaker than the one recently proposed by Kiayias, Zhou, and Zikas [EUROCRYPT’16], but unlike the latter suggestion, which is arguably not implementable given the Bitcoin assumptions, we prove that the one proposed here is securely UC realized under standard assumptions by an appropriate abstraction of Bitcoin as a UC protocol. We further show how known property-based approaches can be cast as special instances of our treatment and how their underlying assumptions can be cast in (G)UC without restricting the environment or the adversary.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2017 |
| Editors | J. Katz, H. Shacham |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 324-356 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-63688-7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-63687-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 29 Jul 2017 |
| Event | CRYPTO 2017: 37th Annual International Cryptology Conference - University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States Duration: 20 Aug 2016 → 24 Aug 2017 https://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2017/ https://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2017/ |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Volume | 10401 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
| Conference | CRYPTO 2017 |
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| Abbreviated title | CRYPTO 2017 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Santa Barbara |
| Period | 20/08/16 → 24/08/17 |
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