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04/30/2023
Breaking Blockchain Rationality with Out-of-Band Collusion
Blockchain systems often rely on rationality assumptions for their secur...
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12/29/2022
Matchertext: Towards Verbatim Interlanguage Embedding
Embedding text in one language within text of another is commonplace for...
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05/17/2022
F3B: A Low-Latency Commit-and-Reveal Architecture to Mitigate Blockchain Front-Running
Front-running attacks, which benefit from advanced knowledge of pending ...
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04/22/2022
Baxos: Backing off for Robust and Efficient Consensus
Leader-based consensus algorithms are vulnerable to liveness and perform...
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02/14/2022
TRIP: Trustless Coercion-Resistant In-Person Voter Registration
Most existing remote electronic voting systems are vulnerable to voter c...
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11/04/2020
Identity and Personhood in Digital Democracy: Evaluating Inclusion, Equality, Security, and Privacy in Pseudonym Parties and Other Proofs of Personhood
Digital identity seems like a prerequisite for digital democracy: how ca...
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11/03/2020
Economic Principles of PoPCoin, a Democratic Time-based Cryptocurrency
While democracy is founded on the principle of equal opportunity to mana...
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03/26/2020
A Liquid Perspective on Democratic Choice
The idea of liquid democracy responds to a widely-felt desire to make de...
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03/26/2020
Democratic Value and Money for Decentralized Digital Society
Classical monetary systems regularly subject the most vulnerable majorit...
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03/04/2020
Que Sera Consensus: Simple Asynchronous Agreement with Private Coins and Threshold Logical Clocks
It is commonly held that asynchronous consensus is much more complex, di...
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10/19/2019
Rationality is Self-Defeating in Permissionless Systems
We outline a metacircular argument explaining why it is rational to be i...
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07/16/2019
Threshold Logical Clocks for Asynchronous Distributed Coordination and Consensus
Consensus protocols for asynchronous networks are usually complex and in...
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06/08/2018
Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication with PURBs
Most encrypted data formats, such as PGP, leak substantial metadata in t...
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10/27/2017
PriFi: A Low-Latency Local-Area Anonymous Communication Network
Popular anonymity protocols such as Tor provide low communication latenc...
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04/27/2015
Deterministically Deterring Timing Attacks in Deterland
The massive parallelism and resource sharing embodying today's cloud bus...
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12/12/2013
Managing NymBoxes for Identity and Tracking Protection
Despite the attempts of well-designed anonymous communication tools to p...
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05/19/2010
Efficient System-Enforced Deterministic Parallelism
Deterministic execution offers many benefits for debugging, fault tolera...
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03/27/2010
Determinating Timing Channels in Compute Clouds
Timing side-channels represent an insidious security challenge for cloud...
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12/04/2009
