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Monotone Erasure Codes
Vivien Bammert, Annalisa Cimatti, Orestis Alpos +2
Erasure codes are a critical component in reliable storage systems today, and many blockchain systems use consensus protocols that involve erasure codes to reduce their communicati…
Eating sandwiches: Modular and lightweight elimination of transaction reordering attacks
Orestis Alpos, Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin +1
Traditional blockchains grant the miner of a block full control not only over which transactions but also their order. This constitutes a major flaw discovered with the introductio…
Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast
Sarah Azouvi, Christian Cachin, Duc V. Le +2
Blockchain protocols implement total-order broadcast in a permissionless setting, where processes can freely join and leave. In such a setting, to safeguard against Sybil attacks,…
Quorum Systems in Permissionless Network
Christian Cachin, Giuliano Losa, Luca Zanolini
Fail-prone systems, and their quorum systems, are useful tools for the design of distributed algorithms. However, fail-prone systems as studied so far require every process to know…
When is Spring coming? A Security Analysis of Avalanche Consensus
Ignacio Amores-Sesar, Christian Cachin, Enrico Tedeschi
Avalanche is a blockchain consensus protocol with exceptionally low latency and high throughput. This has swiftly established the corresponding token as a top-tier cryptocurrency.…
Quick Order Fairness
Christian Cachin, Jovana Mićić, Nathalie Steinhauer +1
Leader-based protocols for consensus, i.e., atomic broadcast, allow some processes to unilaterally affect the final order of transactions. This has become a problem for blockchain…