Privacy-Preserving Incentive Systems with Highly Efficient Point-Collection

Jan Bobolz, Fabian Eidens, Stephan Krenn, Daniel Slamanig, Christoph Striecks

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Abstract / Description of output

Incentive systems (such as customer loyalty systems) are omnipresent nowadays and deployed in several areas such as retail, travel, and financial services. Despite the benefits for customers and companies, this involves large amounts of sensitive data being transferred and analyzed. These concerns initiated research on privacy-preserving incentive systems, where users register with a provider and are then able to privately earn and spend incentive points. In this paper we construct an incentive system that improves upon the state-of-the-art in several ways: (1) We improve efficiency of the Earn protocol by replacing costly zero-knowledge proofs with a short structure-preserving signature on equivalence classes. (2) We enable tracing of remainder tokens from double-spending transactions without losing backward unlinkability. (3) We allow for secure recovery of failed Spend protocol runs (where usually, any retries would be counted as double-spending attempts). (4) We guarantee that corrupt users cannot falsely blame other corrupt users for their double-spending. We propose an extended formal model of incentive systems and a concrete instantiation using homomorphic Pedersen commitments, ElGamal encryption, structure-preserving signatures on equivalence classes (SPS-EQ), and zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge. We formally prove our construction secure and present benchmarks showing its practical efficiency.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages319-333
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781450367509
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2020
Event15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2020 - Virtual, Online, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 5 Oct 20209 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2020

Conference

Conference15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2020
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/10/209/10/20

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • incentive systems
  • privacy
  • provable security

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