Anonymity in Bitcoin and Bitmessage

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dc.contributor.advisorGarg, Vijay K. (Vijay Kumar), 1963-
dc.creatorKrawisz, Daniel Gregory
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-2698-4824
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-06T16:54:13Z
dc.date.available2018-02-06T16:54:13Z
dc.date.created2017-05
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2017
dc.date.updated2018-02-06T16:54:13Z
dc.description.abstractThis report describes two projects created by the author which are based on ideas which originate from the Bitcoin community. The first, bmd, is a re-implementation of the Bitmessage protocol in go. Bitmessage is an anonymous and secure messaging system invented by Jonathan Warren, who was inspired by the design of Bitcoin's p2p network. [WARR1] The second is Shufflepuff, an implementation of a protocol called CoinShuffle[RUFF1] which allows several people to construct a Bitcoin transaction with an input and an output for each participant without any participant knowing who owns which output. CoinShuffle was invented by Tim Ruffing et al, and it is an upgrade of a protocol called CoinJoin, invented by Gregory Maxwell. This paper discusses the background, properties, applications, and design of bmd and Shufflepuff. There is also a report of a performance analysis on bmd.
dc.description.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineering
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2DF6KK82
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/63502
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAnonymity
dc.subjectBitcoin
dc.subjectBitmessage
dc.subjectCoinShuffle
dc.subjectCoinJoin
dc.titleAnonymity in Bitcoin and Bitmessage
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineering
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science in Engineering

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