CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION AUDITING USING AN AUTHENTICATED DATA STRUCTURE

摘要

A method initializes an authenticated database and rules that govern transactions. The method provides a multi-signature from validator agents that can approve the transaction and receives a proof that allows the validator agents to validate the transaction is compliant with the rules without revealing a portion of data in the transaction and identities publicly attributable to parties in the transaction. Upon validation of the transaction using a consensus of the set of validator agents, the method updates a state of the authenticated database for the transaction in a sequence of states including prior states from prior transactions. The method provides corresponding transactions and associated proofs for inputs to an audit proof to an auditor entity where the auditor entity validates the corresponding transactions using the associated proofs and inputs the transactions into the proof to validate a statement of the proof.