3 papers
cs.DC2026
Optimistic, Signature-Free Reliable Broadcast and Its Applications
Nibesh Shrestha, Qianyu Yu, Aniket Kate +3
Reliable broadcast (RBC) is a key primitive in fault-tolerant distributed systems, and improving its efficiency can benefit a wide range of applications. This work focuses on signa…
cs.CR2026
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…
cs.CR2025
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…