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ZKP Security Tools and Verification: Coverage, Effectiveness, Adoption, and Challenges
Arman Kolozyan, Tom Sorger, Alexander Hicks +1
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have become a core technology for privacy and verifiable computing. They are used to secure blockchains that handle billions of dollars and identity ap…
SoK: Log Based Transparency Enhancing Technologies
Alexander Hicks
This paper systematizes log based Transparency Enhancing Technologies. Based on work on transparency from multiple disciplines we outline the purpose, usefulness, and pitfalls of t…
Base Fee Manipulation In Ethereum's EIP-1559 Transaction Fee Mechanism
Sarah Azouvi, Guy Goren, Lioba Heimbach +1
In 2021 Ethereum adjusted the transaction pricing mechanism by implementing EIP-1559, which introduces the base fee - a network fee that is burned and dynamically adjusts to the ne…
Transparency, Compliance, And Contestability When Code Is(n't) Law
Alexander Hicks
Both technical security mechanisms and legal processes serve as mechanisms to deal with misbehaviour according to a set of norms. While they share general similarities, there are a…
Decentralisation Conscious Players And System Reliability
Sarah Azouvi, Alexander Hicks
We propose a game-theoretic model of the reliability of decentralised systems based on Varian's model of system reliability, to which we add a new normalised total effort case that…
SoK: Tools for Game Theoretic Models of Security for Cryptocurrencies
Sarah Azouvi, Alexander Hicks
Cryptocurrencies have garnered much attention in recent years, both from the academic community and industry. One interesting aspect of cryptocurrencies is their explicit considera…
Incentivising Privacy in Cryptocurrencies
Sarah Azouvi, Haaroon Yousaf, Alexander Hicks
Privacy was one of the key points mentioned in Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper, and one of the selling points of Bitcoin in its early stages. In hindsight, however, de-anonymising Bi…
VAMS: Verifiable Auditing of Access to Confidential Data
Alexander Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis, Mustafa Al-Bassam +2
We propose VAMS, a system that enables transparency for audits of access to data requests without compromising the privacy of parties in the system. VAMS supports audits on an aggr…