Auditable private ledgers
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1076271838-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Vasquez, Willy R
Advisor(s)
Neha Narula.
Date Issued
2017
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This thesis describes the design and implementation of Auditable Private Ledgers (APL), a privacy solution for distributed ledgers that lets third parties audit private ledger data. With the use of permissioned blockchains, zero-knowledge proofs, and additively homomorphic commitments, we are able to provide a balance between privacy and regulation. For this work, I implemented the cryptographic tools in Go, helped develop zero-knowledge proofs to provide data authenticity and integrity, and performed an evaluation of this system to measure its performance. Our work shows that the system is reasonable to run between a small number of participants, and that we can efficiently run private sums without revealing fine-grained inputs.
Description
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-64).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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