A scheme of auditable privacy-preserving payment channel hubs
Received date: 2025-03-20
Online published: 2025-07-18
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Payment channel hubs are key technologies for addressing the scalability problem of blockchain. Both parties conduct off-chain relay transactions through the hub, and submit the final state to the blockchain for confirmation, thus effectively improving the transaction throughput. Existing research mainly focuses on the atomicity, privacy and flexibility of transactions. Although the unlinkability of sender-receiver relationships can protect user privacy, it increases the difficulty of auditing and poses challenges to compliance supervision. How to hide payment relationships from the untrusted hubs while revealing them to auditors is still a key issue that needs to be solved urgently. The AuditAccio scheme was proposed, which achieved the payment auditability while ensuring atomicity, privacy, and flexibility by constructing a linkable and randomizable signature of updatable commitments. Security analysis showed that AuditAccio met the security requirements. Experimental results demonstrated that AuditAccio reduced the computational overhead by 99.9% and the communication overhead by 69.8% compared to AuditPCH proposed by Li et al (TIFS 2024).
Key words: blockchain; scalability; payment channel hub; privacy-preserving; payment audit
ZHAO Lulu , NING Jianting , LUO Min , LIU Qin . A scheme of auditable privacy-preserving payment channel hubs[J]. Journal of Cybersecurity, 2025 , 3(2) : 96 -109 . DOI: 10.20172/j.issn.2097-3136.250209
表 1 PCH方案功能对比Table 1 Comparison of PCH scheme functionality |
| 方案 | 原子性 | 隐私性 | 匿名集合大小* | 金额灵活性 | 可审计性 |
| A2L[[22] | |||||
| BlindHub[[15] | |||||
| Accio[[18] | |||||
| AuditPCH[[26] | |||||
| 本方案 |
* |
表 2 AuditAccio方案的链上消耗(Gas)Table 2 On-chain costs (Gas) of AuditAccio scheme |
| 通道角色 | 开启 | 发送方关闭 | 接收方关闭 | |
| 响应 | 超时 | |||
| 发送方 | 49 393 | 43 978 | 76 687 | 0 |
| 接收方 | 0 | 691 192/702 667* | 0 | 694 894/706 320* |
*斜线前后分别为响应的通道状态不合法和合法时的消耗。 |
表 3 Accio方案的链上消耗(Gas)Table 3 On-chain costs (Gas) of Accio scheme |
| 通道角色 | 开启 | 发送方关闭 | 接收方关闭 | |
| 响应 | 超时 | |||
| 发送方 | 49 393 | 43 978 | 76 687 | 0 |
| 接收方 | 0 | 518 134/529 609* | 0 | 521 732/533 329* |
*斜线前后分别为响应的通道状态不合法和合法时的消耗。 |
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