XPay: Practical anonymous payments for tor routing and other networked services Conference

Chen, Y, Sion, R, Carbunar, B. (2009). XPay: Practical anonymous payments for tor routing and other networked services . 41-50. 10.1145/1655188.1655195

cited authors

  • Chen, Y; Sion, R; Carbunar, B

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 ORPay for Tor), provide full anonymity (both for payers and payees), and support thousands of transactions per second. Copyright 2009 ACM.

publication date

  • December 1, 2009

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 41

end page

  • 50