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PQLN: Post-Quantum Security for the Bitcoin Lightning Network's Off-Chain Surfaces
Ahmet Kurt, Abdul-Salem Beibitkhan, Yacoub Hanna +1
A cryptographically relevant quantum computer will break the elliptic-curve cryptography behind Bitcoin and its Lightning Network, the most widely used payment channel network. Eve…
LNTest: A Testbed for Evaluating Bitcoin Lightning Network-Based Botnets
Thomas Bakaysa, Ahmet Kurt, Abdul-Salem Beibitkhan +6
Bitcoin's Lightning Network (LN) can be exploited as a covert, low-cost command-and-control (C&C) channel for botnets, as demonstrated by the LNBot and D-LNBot designs. However, bo…
LNMesh: Who Said You need Internet to send Bitcoin? Offline Lightning Network Payments using Community Wireless Mesh Networks
Ahmet Kurt, Abdulhadi Sahin, Ricardo Harrilal-Parchment +1
Bitcoin is undoubtedly a great alternative to today's existing digital payment systems. Even though Bitcoin's scalability has been debated for a long time, we see that it is no lon…
LNGate: Secure Bidirectional IoT Micro-payments using Bitcoin's Lightning Network and Threshold Cryptography
Ahmet Kurt, Kemal Akkaya, Sabri Yilmaz +3
Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept; however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and low throughput. L…
D-LNBot: A Scalable, Cost-Free and Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin's Lightning Network
Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Kemal Akkaya +2
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…
3-of-3 Multisignature Approach for Enabling Lightning Network Micro-payments on IoT Devices
Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin +1
Bitcoin's success as a cryptocurrency enabled it to penetrate into many daily life transactions. Its problems regarding the transaction fees and long validation times are addressed…
LNGate: Powering IoT with Next Generation Lightning Micro-payments using Threshold Cryptography
Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Omer Shlomovits +2
Bitcoin has emerged as a revolutionary payment system with its decentralized ledger concept however it has significant problems such as high transaction fees and long confirmation…
Cryptocurrency Solutions to Enable Micro-payments in Consumer IoT
Suat Mercan, Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin +1
The successful amalgamation of cryptocurrency and consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices can pave the way for novel applications in machine-to-machine economy. However, the lack…
Enabling Micro-payments on IoT Devices using Bitcoin Lightning Network
Ahmet Kurt, Suat Mercan, Enes Erdin +1
Lightning Network (LN) addresses the scalability problem of Bitcoin by leveraging off-chain transactions. Nevertheless, it is not possible to run LN on resource-constrained IoT dev…
LNBot: A Covert Hybrid Botnet on Bitcoin Lightning Network for Fun and Profit
Ahmet Kurt, Enes Erdin, Mumin Cebe +2
While various covert botnets were proposed in the past, they still lack complete anonymization for their servers/botmasters or suffer from slow communication between the botmaster…