LTRAS: A Linkable Threshold Ring Adaptor Signature Scheme for Efficient and Private Cross-Chain Transactions
Yi Liang, Jinguang Han

TL;DR
The paper introduces LTRAS, a novel signature scheme combining linkability, threshold, and ring signatures to enable efficient, private, and secure cross-chain transactions with reduced overhead.
Contribution
It presents the first formal definition, security analysis, and practical implementation of LTRAS, improving privacy and efficiency in blockchain cross-chain operations.
Findings
Achieves lower computation and communication overhead in large rings.
Provides enhanced privacy through ring signature anonymity.
Demonstrates practical application in cross-chain atomic swaps.
Abstract
Despite the advantages of decentralization and immutability, blockchain technology faces significant scalability and throughput limitations, which has prompted the exploration of off-chain solutions like payment channels. Adaptor signatures have been considered a promising primitive for constructing such channels due to their support for atomicity, offering an alternative to traditional hash-timelock contracts. However, standard adaptor signatures may reveal signer identity, raising potential privacy concerns. While ring signatures can mitigate this issue by providing anonymity, they often introduce high communication overhead, particularly in multi-account payment settings commonly used in UTXO-based blockchains like Monero. To address these limitations, we propose a Linkable Threshold Ring Adaptor Signature (LTRAS) scheme, which integrates the conditional binding of adaptor…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · Cryptography and Data Security · Advanced Authentication Protocols Security
