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Quantum Cryptography is a rapidly developing field of research that benefits from the properties of Quantum Mechanics in performing cryptographic tasks. Quantum walks are a powerful model for quantum computation and very promising for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 C. Vlachou , J. Rodrigues , P. Mateus , N. Paunković , A. Souto

The cryptocurrency is attracting more and more attention because of the blockchain technology. Ethereum is gaining a significant popularity in blockchain community, mainly due to the fact that it is designed in a way that enables developers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 TonTon Hsien-De Huang , Po-Wei Hong , Ying-Tse Lee , Yi-Lun Wang , Chi-Leong Lok , Hung-Yu Kao

With the rapid growth of hyperconnected devices and decentralized data architectures, safeguarding Internet of Things (IoT) transactions is becoming increasingly challenging. Blockchain presents a promising solution, yet its effectiveness…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Sokratis Vavilis , Harris Niavis , Konstantinos Loupos

The development of eHealth systems has brought great convenience to people's life. Researchers have been combining new technologies to make eHealth systems work better for patients. The Blockchain-based eHealth system becomes popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Renpeng Zou , Xixiang Lv , Jingsong Zhao

Ethereum's scalability has been a major concern due to its limited transaction throughput and high fees. To address these limitations, Polygon has emerged as a sidechain solution that facilitates asset transfers between Ethereum and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Tao Yan , Chuanshan Huang , Claudio J. Tessone

A distributed and transparent ledger system is considered for various e-commerce products including health medicines, electronics, security appliances, food products and many more to ensure technological and e-commerce sustainability. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Gulshan Kumara , Rahul Sahaa , William J Buchanan , G. Geethaa , Reji Thomasa , Tai-Hoon Kimc , Mamoun Alazab

Ethereum has undergone a recent change called \textit{the Merge}, which made Ethereum a Proof-of-Stake blockchain, shifting closer to BFT consensus. Ethereum, which wished to keep the best of the two protocol designs (BFT and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ulysse Pavloff , Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou , Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni

This paper explores the utilization of blockchain token voting technology in student course selection systems. The current course selection systems face various issues, which can be mitigated through the implementation of blockchain…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tiansu Hu , Yuzhao Song , Linjing Zhang , Xiaoya Zhou

Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology (DLT) where data is shared among users connected over the internet. Transactions are data state changes on the blockchain that are permanently recorded in a secure and transparent way…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Amirmohammad Pasdar , Zhongli Dong , Young Choon Lee

In most websites, the online rating system provides the ratings of products and services to users. Lack of trust in data integrity and its manipulation has hindered fulfilling user satisfaction. Since existing online rating systems deal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Monir Shaker , Fereidoon Shams Aliee , Reza Fotohi

The goal of this paper is to propose a blockchain-based platform to enhance transparency and traceability of cybersecurity certification information motivated by the recently adopted EU Cybersecurity Act. The proposed platform is generic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ricardo Neisse , José L. Hernández-Ramos , Sara N. Matheu , Gianmarco Baldini , Antonio Skarmeta

Securing the traceability of products in the supply chain is an urgent issue. Recently, supply chain systems that use public blockchain (PBC) have been proposed. In these systems, PBC is used as a common database shared between supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Takio Uesugi , Yoshinobu Shijo , Masayuki Murata

We present an online voting architecture based on partitioning the election in small clusters of voters and using a new Multi-party Computation algorithm for obtaining voting results from the clusters. This new algorithm has some practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Juanjo Bermúdez

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), e-health has become one of the main topics of research. Due to the sensitivity of patient information, patient privacy seems challenging. Nowadays, patient data is usually stored in the cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Sajad Meisami , Mohammad Beheshti-Atashgah , Mohammad Reza Aref

This chapter contributes to evolving the versatility and complexity of blockchain-enabled services through extending the functionality of blockchain-enforced smart contracts. The contributions include: (i) a method for automated management…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Craig Wright , Antoaneta Serguieva

Authcoin is an alternative approach to the commonly used public key infrastructures such as central authorities and the PGP web of trust. It combines a challenge response-based validation and authentication process for domains,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Benjamin Leiding , Clemens H. Cap , Thomas Mundt , Samaneh Rashidibajgan

The digital currency Bitcoin has had remarkable growth since it was first proposed in 2008. Its distributed nature allows currency transactions without a central authority by using cryptographic methods and a data structure called the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Jonathan Jogenfors

Smart contracts are applications that execute on blockchains. Today they manage billions of dollars in value and motivate visionary plans for pervasive blockchain deployment. While smart contracts inherit the availability and other security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Raymond Cheng , Fan Zhang , Jernej Kos , Warren He , Nicholas Hynes , Noah Johnson , Ari Juels , Andrew Miller , Dawn Song

In this paper, we analyze the Ethereum blockchain using the complex networks modeling framework. Accounts acting on the blockchain are represented as nodes, while the interactions among these accounts, recorded on the blockchain, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Stefano Ferretti , Gabriele D'Angelo

Most online lotteries today fail to ensure the verifiability of the random process and rely on a trusted third party. This issue has received little attention since the emergence of distributed protocols like Bitcoin that demonstrated the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Stéphane Grumbach , Robert Riemann