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PQLN: Post-Quantum Security for the Bitcoin Lightning Network's Off-Chain Surfaces
Ahmet Kurt, Abdul-Salem Beibitkhan, Yacoub Hanna +1
A cryptographically relevant quantum computer will break the elliptic-curve cryptography behind Bitcoin and its Lightning Network, the most widely used payment channel network. Eve…
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LNTest: A Testbed for Evaluating Bitcoin Lightning Network-Based Botnets
Thomas Bakaysa, Ahmet Kurt, Abdul-Salem Beibitkhan +6
Bitcoin's Lightning Network (LN) can be exploited as a covert, low-cost command-and-control (C&C) channel for botnets, as demonstrated by the LNBot and D-LNBot designs. However, bo…