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A Framework for Building an Electronic Currency System
Lei Tang
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
We describe the framework for building an electronic currency system.
We detail the design of the components of the electronic currency
system and the relationship among them. Contrary to the previous
electronic currency literature, which focus exclusively on electronic
currency protocol designs, we address how to achieve both transaction
atomicity and transaction anonymity at the presence of the hostile
failures, which are common in an electronic currency system if the
customers or the merchants are dishonest or malicious. We also
propose a recovery method called redo_transaction to recover from
hostile failures so that the aborted electronic currency transactions
caused by the hostile failures can be forced to commit eventually.
The structure of the electronic currency system is
protocol-independent in the sense that those Chaum-like off-line
electronic currency protocol could be incorporated into our framework.
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