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Collaborative cybersecurity relies on organizations sharing information to boost security, but trust management is a key concern. Decentralized solutions like distributed ledgers, particularly blockchain, are crucial for eliminating single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Loïc Miller , Marc-Oliver Pahl

Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have evolved significantly in the last years and their use has been suggested for numerous applications due to their ability to provide transparency, redundancy and accountability.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames , Paula Fraga-Lamas

Blockchain promises to make online services more fault tolerant due to their inherent distributed nature. Their ability to execute arbitrary programs in different geo-distributed regions and on diverse operating systems make them an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Vincent Gramoli , Rachid Guerraoui , Andrei Lebedev , Gauthier Voron

Central-managed security mechanisms are often utilized in many organizations, but such server is also a security breaking point. This is because the server has the authority for all nodes that share the security protection. Hence if the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wei-Yang Chiu , Weizhi Meng

This paper presents a novel Collaborative Cyberattack Detection (CCD) system aimed at enhancing the security of blockchain-based data-sharing networks by addressing the complex challenges associated with noise addition in federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tran Viet Khoa , Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Yibeltal Alem , Dinh Thai Hoang

A Blockchain Name System (BNS) simplifies the process of sending cryptocurrencies by replacing complex cryptographic recipient addresses with human-readable names, making the transactions more convenient. Unfortunately, these names can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Muhammad Muzammil , Zhengyu Wu , Lalith Harisha , Brian Kondracki , Nick Nikiforakis

The sharing economy is centralizing services, leading to misuses of the Internet. We can list growing damages of data hacks, global outages and even the use of data to manipulate their owners. Unfortunately, there is no decentralized web…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Deepal Tennakoon , Yiding Hua , Vincent Gramoli

The idea of security sharing goes back to Nakamoto's introduction of merge mining, a technique that enables Bitcoin miners to reuse their hash power to bootstrap and secure other Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchains. However, with the rise of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xinshu Dong , Orfeas Stefanos Thyfronitis Litos , Ertem Nusret Tas , David Tse , Robin Linus Woll , Lei Yang , Mingchao Yu

The Tangle-based structure becomes one of the most promising solutions when designing DAG-based blockchain systems. The approach improves the scalability by directly confirming multiple transactions in parallel instead of single blocks in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Bozhi Wang , Qin Wang , Shiping Chen , Yang Xiang

Recently, there has been a growing interest in using online technologies to design protocols for secure electronic voting. The main challenges include vote privacy and anonymity, ballot irrevocability and transparency throughout the vote…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Silvia Bartolucci , Pauline Bernat , Daniel Joseph

Blockchains have shown great promise as peer-to-peer digital currency systems over the past 10 years. However, with increased popularity, the demand for processing transactions has also grown leading to increased costs, confirmation times,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Karl J. Kreder

The rise of smart contract systems such as Ethereum has resulted in a proliferation of blockchain-based decentralized applications including applications that store and manage a wide range of data. Current smart contracts are designed to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Chao Li , Balaji Palanisamy , Runhua Xu

Scalability is a common issue among the most used permissionless blockchains, and several approaches have been proposed accordingly. As Ethereum is set to be a solid foundation for a decentralized Internet web, the need for tackling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mikel Cortes-Goicoechea , Luca Franceschini , Leonardo Bautista-Gomez

Traditional blockchains grant the miner of a block full control not only over which transactions but also their order. This constitutes a major flaw discovered with the introduction of decentralized finance and allows miners to perform MEV…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Orestis Alpos , Ignacio Amores-Sesar , Christian Cachin , Michelle Yeo

Scalability is a crucial requirement for modern large-scale systems, enabling elasticity and ensuring responsiveness under varying load. While cloud systems have achieved scalable architectures, blockchain systems remain constrained by the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Quentin Kniep , Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias , Alberto Sonnino , Igor Zablotchi , Nuda Zhang

Blockchain technology offers a decentralized and secure method for storing and authenticating data, rendering it well-suited for various applications such as digital currencies, supply chain management, and voting systems. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mohammad R. Shakournia , Pooya Jamshidi , Hamid Reza Faragardi , Nasser Yazdani

The Bitcoin cryptocurrency records its transactions in a public log called the blockchain. Its security rests critically on the distributed protocol that maintains the blockchain, run by participants called miners. Conventional wisdom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Ittay Eyal , Emin Gun Sirer

Blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum execute payment transactions securely, but their performance is limited by the need for global consensus. Payment networks overcome this limitation through off-chain transactions. Instead of writing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Lind , Oded Naor , Ittay Eyal , Florian Kelbert , Peter Pietzuch , Emin Gun Sirer

We investigate the instantaneous and limiting behavior of an n-node blockchain which is under continuous monitoring of the IT department of a company but faces non-stop cyber attacks from a single hacker. The blockchain is functional as far…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Xiufeng Xu , Liang Hong

Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) that offers numerous benefits including decentralization, transparency, efficiency, and reduced costs. Hence, blockchain has been included in many fields. Blockchain relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sufyan Al-Janabi