An Anonymous Mobile Payment System Based on Bilinear Pairings
Volume 20, Issue 4 (2009), pp. 579–590
Pub. online: 1 January 2009
Type: Research Article
Received
1 April 2007
1 April 2007
Accepted
1 April 2008
1 April 2008
Published
1 January 2009
1 January 2009
Abstract
Many electronic cash systems have been proposed with the proliferation of the Internet and the activation of electronic commerce. E-cash enables the exchange of digital coins with value assured by the bank's signature and with concealed user identity. In an electronic cash system, a user can withdraw coins from the bank and then spends each coin anonymously and unlinkably. In this paper, we design an efficient anonymous mobile payment system based on bilinear pairings, in which the anonymity of coins is revocable by a trustee in case of dispute. The message transfer from the customer to the merchant occurs only once during the payment protocol. Also, the amount of communication between customer and merchant is about 800 bits. Therefore, our mobile payment system can be used in the wireless networks with the limited bandwidth. The security of the new system is under the computational Diffie–Hellman problem in the random oracle model.