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Security and Privacy of Lightning Network Payments with Uncertain Channel Balances
Rene Pickhardt, Sergei Tikhomirov, Alex Biryukov +1
The Lightning Network (LN) is a prominent payment channel network aimed at addressing Bitcoin's scalability issues. Due to the privacy of channel balances, senders cannot reliably…
Probing Channel Balances in the Lightning Network
Sergei Tikhomirov, Rene Pickhardt, Alex Biryukov +1
As Lightning network payments are neither broadcasted nor publicly stored. Thus LN has been seen not only as scalability but also as privacy solution for Bitcoin. The protocol guar…
Egalitarian computing
Alex Biryukov, Dmitry Khovratovich
In this paper we explore several contexts where an adversary has an upper hand over the defender by using special hardware in an attack. These include password processing, hard-dri…
Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea
Alex Biryukov, Ivan Pustogarov
Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P digital currency in which coins are generated by a distributed set of miners and transaction are broadcasted via a peer-to-peer network. While Bitcoi…
Deanonymisation of clients in Bitcoin P2P network
Alex Biryukov, Dmitry Khovratovich, Ivan Pustogarov
Bitcoin is a digital currency which relies on a distributed set of miners to mint coins and on a peer-to-peer network to broadcast transactions. The identities of Bitcoin users are…
Content and popularity analysis of Tor hidden services
Alex Biryukov, Ivan Pustogarov, Fabrice Thill +1
Tor hidden services allow running Internet services while protecting the location of the servers. Their main purpose is to enable freedom of speech even in situations in which powe…