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Handel: Practical Multi-Signature Aggregation for Large Byzantine Committees
Olivier Bégassat, Blazej Kolad, Nicolas Gailly +1
We present Handel, a Byzantine-tolerant aggregation protocol that allows for the quick aggregation of cryptographic signatures over a WAN. Handel has polylogarithmic time, communic…
Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly +3
While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes for transactions to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic guarantees. This paper introduces…
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…