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A blackmailing attack consists in coercing an authority (e.g., by taking a hostage) to publish (e.g., in a newspaper or on the Internet) an encrypted version of a system secret key. Blackmailing attacks are a concern in anonymous cash systems that have no anonymity revocation features.
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Naccache, D. (2011). Blackmailing Attacks. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_889
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