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Lifefin: Escaping Mempool Explosions in DAG-based BFT
Jianting Zhang, Sen Yang, Alberto Sonnino +2
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-based Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) protocols have emerged as promising solutions for high-throughput blockchains. By decoupling data dissemination fr…
Beluga: Block Synchronization for BFT Consensus Protocols
Tasos Kichidis, Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias, Arun Koshy +4
Modern high-throughput BFT consensus protocols use streamlined push-pull mechanisms to disseminate blocks and keep happy-path performance optimal. Yet state-of-the-art designs lack…
Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
Zhongtang Luo, Jianting Zhang, Akshat Neerati +1
The Tor network offers network anonymity to its users by routing their traffic through a sequence of relays. A group of nine directory authorities maintains information about all a…