28 citations · 30 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
4 papers
Baxos: Backing off for Robust and Efficient Consensus
Pasindu Tennage, Cristina Basescu, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias +3
Leader-based consensus algorithms are vulnerable to liveness and performance downgrade attacks. We explore the possibility of replacing leader election in Multi-Paxos with random e…
Que Sera Consensus: Simple Asynchronous Agreement with Private Coins and Threshold Logical Clocks
Bryan Ford, Philipp Jovanovic, Ewa Syta
It is commonly held that asynchronous consensus is much more complex, difficult, and costly than partially-synchronous algorithms, especially without using common coins. This paper…
Keeping Authorities "Honest or Bust" with Decentralized Witness Cosigning
Ewa Syta, Iulia Tamas, Dylan Visher +6
The secret keys of critical network authorities - such as time, name, certificate, and software update services - represent high-value targets for hackers, criminals, and spy agenc…
Hang With Your Buddies to Resist Intersection Attacks
David Isaac Wolinsky, Ewa Syta, Bryan Ford
Some anonymity schemes might in principle protect users from pervasive network surveillance - but only if all messages are independent and unlinkable. Users in practice often need…