@inproceedings{8948a13c93af4d71bc2f2bdb52895ee4,
title = "Enabling the Sharing Economy: Privacy Respecting Contract based on Public Blockchain",
abstract = "Blockchain is a novel way to construct fully distributed systems and has the potential to disrupt many businesses including Uber and Airbnb within the sharing economy. Specifically, blockchain provides a method to enforce the agreement between a user and the physical property owner without using any trusted party, e.g., if a user pays the agreed money, the blockchain guarantees that he/she has access to the property. While a blockchain based system has many desirable features, it may leak privacy information of involved parties due to its openness to the public. To mitigate the privacy concern, we propose a privacy respecting approach for blockchain-based sharing economy applications, which leverages a zero-knowledge scheme. We also analyze the security features and performance of the proposed approach to demonstrate its effectiveness in these applications.",
keywords = "IoT, Privacy, Public blockchain, Sharing economy",
author = "Lei Xu and Nolan Shah and Lin Chen and Nour Diallo and Zhimin Gao and Yang Lu and Weidong Shi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 1st ACM Workshop on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts, BCC 2017 ; Conference date: 02-04-2017",
year = "2017",
month = apr,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/3055518.3055527",
language = "English",
series = "BCC 2017 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts, co-located with ASIA CCS 2017",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "15--21",
booktitle = "BCC 2017 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts, co-located with ASIA CCS 2017",
}