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Privacy Coins Under Viewing Key Compromise

2026 · IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive · Vol 2026, pp. 872 · 0 citations · 67 references
Computer Science

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This paper fills the gap in provable anonymity guarantees for Zcash and Firo under the compromise of the incoming viewing key, while, at the same time, exposing problems with Monero.

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