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One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Transaction DoS in MimbleWimble Blockchains
Seyed Ali Tabatabaee, Charlene Nicer, Ivan Beschastnikh +1
As adoption of blockchain-based systems grows, more attention is being given to privacy of these systems. Early systems like BitCoin provided few privacy features. As a result, sys…
Dissecting the Performance of Chained-BFT
Fangyu Gai, Ali Farahbakhsh, Jianyu Niu +3
Permissioned blockchains employ Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state machine replication (SMR) to reach agreement on an ever-growing, linearly ordered log of transactions. A new pa…
Precise XSS detection and mitigation with Client-side Templates
Jose Carlos Pazos, Jean-Sebastien Legare, Ivan Beschastnikh +1
We present XSnare, a fully client-side XSS solution, implemented as a Firefox extension. Our approach takes advantage of available previous knowledge of a web application's HTML te…
Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
Gleb Naumenko, Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille +2
Bitcoin is a top-ranked cryptocurrency that has experienced huge growth and survived numerous attacks. The protocols making up Bitcoin must therefore accommodate the growth of the…
Dancing in the Dark: Private Multi-Party Machine Learning in an Untrusted Setting
Clement Fung, Jamie Koerner, Stewart Grant +1
Distributed machine learning (ML) systems today use an unsophisticated threat model: data sources must trust a central ML process. We propose a brokered learning abstraction that a…