Scientific knowledge map · Paper #24
Disincentivizing/Incentivizing Malicious/Honest Behavior on the Internet via Privacy-Preserving AppCoins
2014 · Ninth Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), co-located with IEEE ICNP
- Theory
- Applied
- protocol
- scheme
Research question
What does the paper try to establish?
Can privacy-preserving, low-overhead application-specific micropayments raise the economic cost of abusive Internet behavior while rewarding cooperative behavior?
Central answer
What is the proposed answer?
The available summary-level description says AppCoins combine privacy, non-malleability, and double-spending resistance and can be integrated into email and onion routing, with a performance analysis reported as practical on commodity hardware; no public manuscript was located, so the construction and evidence cannot yet be mapped below that level.
Evidence profile
Six dimensions, kept separate
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- Epistemic evidence Low
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Only publication metadata and a curated editorial summary are inspectable; protocols, proofs, incentive analysis, and performance evidence were not audited.
Curated editorial description Official IEEE publication record - Auditability Medium
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An official publication record exists, but no public archive or author-hosted copy was located; full assumptions, evidence, and version identity are not readily auditable from this map.
Official IEEE publication record - Production provenance Medium
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Named authorship and an IEEE proceedings record establish baseline provenance. Roles, revisions, artifacts, and production history are not documented.
Official IEEE publication record - External scrutiny Medium
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The work has a workshop proceedings record, but review criteria, reports, and independent evaluation were not inspected.
Official IEEE publication record - Reception Low
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OpenAlex reports 4 located citations as of 2026-07-11. The count is index-specific and may omit versions or citations.
Dated OpenAlex citation snapshot - Contribution significance Medium
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The application-specific private-token framing is concrete, but technical novelty and practical impact cannot be certified without the manuscript.
Curated editorial description
Assessment: Ai draft author review pending · 2026-07-11 · rubric 0.2. These dimensions describe documented support and process, not truth, correctness, or a universal ranking. No composite score is calculated.
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Privacy-Preserving AppCoins
A proposed application-specific micropayment mechanism intended to attach economic incentives and disincentives to online behavior while preserving user privacy.
Curated editorial description-
question Research question
editorial synthesis pending source auditCan low-cost private digital coins deter abuse and reward cooperation without turning the payment mechanism into a user-tracking system?
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contribution Reported central answer
editorial summary reportDefine AppCoins and cryptographic protocols intended to resist malleation and double spending, then adapt email and onion-routing examples to consume or award them.
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scope Intended scope
incompletely specifiedThe available description covers micropayment-based incentives for online applications, with email and onion routing as examples; issuer, spender, verifier, trust, and privacy models were not recoverable without the paper.
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method Reported AppCoin protocols
reported not source auditedThe site record reports privacy-preserving, non-malleable, double-spending-resistant coin protocols and application integration, but no algorithms, security games, assumptions, or message flows were available for audit.
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claim group Reported claims
reported not source auditedThe record says AppCoins can increase attackers' financial cost, reward honest behavior, and run with practical commodity-hardware overhead; exact hypotheses and measurements are unavailable.
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evidence group Evidence gap
unavailable for auditThe publication metadata confirms the paper exists, but neither proofs nor the reported performance analysis were inspectable; the current map supplies no independent support for the technical claims.
Curated editorial description Official IEEE publication record -
limitation group Unverified boundaries
material source gapPrivacy definition, non-malleability game, double-spending detection, issuer trust, unlinkability, value transfer, incentive equilibrium, application abuse model, and benchmark setup all require the missing manuscript.
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artifact group Artifacts and resources
metadata onlyOnly the official DOI and bibliographic records were located. OpenAlex identifies no open or repository full text; no author copy, archive manuscript, code, or data was found.
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scrutiny External scrutiny
publication recordedThe paper appears in the NPSec workshop proceedings co-located with IEEE ICNP; review materials and subsequent technical scrutiny were not audited.
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lineage Research direction
editorial synthesis pending source auditThe work frames privacy-preserving cryptographic tokens as application-layer incentive instruments rather than general-purpose currency.
Curated editorial description
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- Curated editorial description Site editorial summary; manuscript not audited
- Official IEEE publication record NPSec 2014 / ICNP proceedings, pages 630-635
- Dated OpenAlex citation snapshot cited_by_count = 4, accessed 2026-07-11