3 papers
cs.CR2026
Leader Rotation Is Not Enough: Scrutinizing Leadership Democracy of Chained BFT Consensus
Jianyu Niu, Yining Tang, Runchao Han +2
With the growing popularity of blockchains, modern chained BFT protocols combining chaining and leader rotation to obtain better efficiency and leadership democracy have received i…
cs.CR2026
SILMARILS: Information-Theoretic and Quantum-Secure Designated-Verifier Signatures
Hassan Khodaiemehr, Khadijeh Bagheri, Chen Feng +1
SILMARILS is built from a minimal algebraic core over using true randomness and perfect -out-of- Shamir secret sharing. The framework supports both two-party a…
cs.IT2025
Full-Diversity Construction-D Lattices: Design and Decoding Perspective on Block-Fading Channels
Maryam Sadeghi, Hassan Khodaiemehr, Chen Feng
This paper introduces a novel framework for constructing algebraic lattices based on Construction-D, leveraging nested linear codes and prime ideals from algebraic number fields. W…