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Digital transactions currently exceed trillions of dollars annually, yet traditional paper-based agreements remain a bottleneck for automation, enforceability, and dispute resolution. Natural language contracts introduce ambiguity, require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 To-Wen Liu , Matthew Green

In recent years, many Blockchain based frameworks for transacting commodities on a congestible network have been proposed. In particular, as the number of controllable grid connected assets increases, there is a need for a decentralized,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Nikhil Ravi , Shammya Saha , Anna Scaglione , Nathan G. Johnson

With the advent of delegated quantum computing as a service, verifying quantum computations is becoming a question of great importance. Existing information theoretically Secure Delegated Quantum Computing (SDQC) protocols require the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Elham Kashefi , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

Raziel combines secure multi-party computation and proof-carrying code to provide privacy, correctness and verifiability guarantees for smart contracts on blockchains. Effectively solving DAO and Gyges attacks, this paper describes an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-17 David Cerezo Sánchez

Confidential Computing enhances privacy of data in-use through hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that use attestation to verify their integrity, authenticity, and certain runtime properties, along with those of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Ceren Kocaoğullar , Tina Marjanov , Ivan Petrov , Ben Laurie , Al Cutter , Christoph Kern , Alice Hutchings , Alastair R. Beresford

As new project upgrading the blockchain industry, novel forms of attack challenges developers to rethink about the design of their innovations. In the growth stage of the development, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zayn Wang , Frank Pu , Vinci Cheung , Robert Hao

The present paper introduces a practical protocol for provably secure, outsourced computation. Our protocol minimizes overhead for verification by requiring solutions to withstand an interactive game between a prover and challenger. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Sanjay Jain , Prateek Saxena , Frank Stephan , Jason Teutsch

In a world of increasing closed-source commercial machine learning models, model evaluations from developers must be taken at face value. These benchmark results-whether over task accuracy, bias evaluations, or safety checks-are…

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has led to growing concerns about data security and user privacy in the interactions within distributed systems. Decentralized Applications (DApps) in distributed systems consist…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xiangyu Liu , Brian Lee , Yuansong Qiao

Binary verification plays a pivotal role in software security, yet building a verification service that is both open and trustworthy poses a formidable challenge. In this paper, we introduce a novel binary verification service, AGORA,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hongbo Chen , Quan Zhou , Sen Yang , Xing Han , Fan Zhang , Danfeng Zhang , Xiaofeng Wang

Federated computing (FC) enables collaborative computation such as machine learning, analytics, or data processing across distributed organizations keeping raw data local. Built on four architectural pillars, distributed data assets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Enzo Fenoglio , Philip Treleaven

We propose a blockchain-based solution for enabling verifiability of manufacturing processes. We base our solution on the methodology of verifiable computing which, originally developed for cloud computing, enables clients to outsource…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Michael Chiu , Jyotiraditya Panda , Abraham Goldsmith , Uros Kalabic

Process attestation systems verify that a continuous physical process, such as human authorship, actually occurred, rather than merely checking system state. These systems face a fundamental dependability challenge: the evidence collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 David Condrey

We present DAO Portal, a production-grade analytics pipeline and interactive dashboard for assessing the sustainability of Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) derived from on-chain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Silvio Meneguzzo , Claudio Schifanella , Valentina Gatteschi , Giuseppe Destefanis

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have emerged as a novel way to coordinate a group of (pseudonymous) entities towards a shared vision (e.g., promoting sustainability), utilizing self-executing smart contracts on blockchains to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Tanusree Sharma , Yujin Kwon , Kornrapat Pongmala , Henry Wang , Andrew Miller , Dawn Song , Yang Wang

Live migration of applications is a fundamental capability for enabling resilient computing in modern distributed systems. However, extending this functionality to trusted applications (TA) -- executing within Trusted Execution Environments…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Stefanos Vasileaidis , Thanassis Giannetsos , Matthias Schunter , Bruno Crispo

Autonomous and robotic systems are increasingly being trusted with sensitive activities with potentially serious consequences if that trust is broken. Runtime verification techniques present a natural source of inspiration for monitoring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Robert Abela , Christian Colombo , Axel Curmi , Mattea Fenech , Mark Vella , Angelo Ferrando

Verifiable credentials are a digital analogue of physical credentials. Their authenticity and integrity are protected by means of cryptographic techniques, and they can be presented to verifiers to reveal attributes or even predicates about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Andrea Flamini , Giada Sciarretta , Mario Scuro , Amir Sharif , Alessandro Tomasi , Silvio Ranise

As an essential technology underpinning trusted computing, the trusted execution environment (TEE) allows one to launch computation tasks on both on- and off-premises data while assuring confidentiality and integrity. This article provides…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Xiaoguo Li , Bowen Zhao , Guomin Yang , Tao Xiang , Jian Weng , Robert H. Deng

In the context of cloud computing, services are held on cloud servers, where the clients send their data to the server and obtain the results returned by server. However, the computation, data and results are prone to tampering due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yancheng Zhang , Mengxin Zheng , Xun Chen , Jingtong Hu , Weidong Shi , Lei Ju , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou