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Hoenisch, P., Mazumdar, S., Moreno-Sánchez, P., & Ruj, S. 2022. Lightswap: An atomic swap does not require timeouts at both blockchains. [Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1650]. 
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BibTeX citation key: Hoenisch2022
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Categories: Monero-focused
Creators: Hoenisch, Mazumdar, Moreno-Sánchez, Ruj
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Attachments   2022-1650.pdf [24/407], Final-LongversionXMR_lock_then_BTC.pdf [26/319] URLs   https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1650
Abstract
Security and privacy issues with centralized exchange services have motivated the design of atomic swap protocols for decentralized trading across currencies. These protocols follow a standard blueprint similar to the 2-phase commit in databases: (i) both users first lock their coins under a certain (cryptographic) condition and a timeout; (ii-a) the coins are swapped if the condition is fulfilled; or (ii-b) coins are released after the timeout. The quest for these protocols is to minimize the requirements from the scripting language supported by the swapped coins, thereby supporting a larger range of cryptocurrencies. The recently proposed universal atomic swap protocol [IEEE S&P’22] demonstrates how to swap coins whose scripting language only supports the verification of a digital signature on a transaction. However, the timeout functionality is cryptographically simulated with verifiable timelock puzzles, a computationally expensive primitive that hinders its use in battery-constrained devices such as mobile phones. In this state of affairs, we question whether the 2-phase commit paradigm is necessary for atomic swaps in the first place. In other words, is it possible to design a secure atomic swap protocol where the timeout is not used by (at least one of the two) users?
In this work, we present LightSwap, the first secure atomic swap protocol that does not require the timeout functionality (not even in the form of a cryptographic puzzle) by one of the two users. LightSwap is thus better suited for scenarios where a user, running an instance of LightSwap on her mobile phone, wants to exchange coins with an online exchange service running an instance of LightSwap on a computer. We show how LightSwap can be used to swap Bitcoin and Monero, an interesting use case since Monero does not provide any scripting functionality support other than linkable ring signature verification.
  
Notes
noot/elizabethereum: "looks cool but requires tx presigning on the monero side, which isn't currently supported :(  they also only stated that at the very end of the paper lol"

https://twitter.com/elizabethereum/status/1598830605537804288


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