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5 papers
Enabling Bitcoin Smart Contracts on the Internet Computer
Ryan Croote, Islam El-Ashi, Thomas Locher +1
There is growing interest in providing programmatic access to the value locked in Bitcoin, which famously offers limited programmability itself. Various approaches have been put fo…
When Can a Distributed Ledger Replace a Trusted Third Party?
Thomas Locher, Sebastian Obermeier, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
The functionality that distributed ledger technology provides, i.e., an immutable and fraud-resistant registry with validation and verification mechanisms, has traditionally been i…
Obfuscation using Encryption
Johannes Schneider, Thomas Locher
Protecting source code against reverse engineering and theft is an important problem. The goal is to carry out computations using confidential algorithms on an untrusted party whil…
Task Allocation for Distributed Stream Processing
Raphael Eidenbenz, Thomas Locher
There is a growing demand for live, on-the-fly processing of increasingly large amounts of data. In order to ensure the timely and reliable processing of streaming data, a variety…
Optimal Gradient Clock Synchronization in Dynamic Networks
Fabian Kuhn, Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher +1
We study the problem of clock synchronization in highly dynamic networks, where communication links can appear or disappear at any time. The nodes in the network are equipped with…