4 papers
Security Analysis of Bitcoin's V2 Transport Protocol: Exploiting Design Implications for Sustained Eclipse and Downgrade Attacks
Charmaine Ndolo, Florian Tschorsch
Bitcoin recently introduced a new protocol for the encryption of peer-to-peer (P2P) communication. The protocol, known as V2 P2P transport, represents a big step towards securing t…
Fair Reward Distribution in Federated Byzantine Agreement Systems
Charmaine Ndolo, Martin Florian, Florian Tschorsch
Federated Byzantine Agreement Systems (FBASs) offer a solution to consensus in permissionless systems by adapting the well-studied Byzantine agreement model to permissionless conse…
Crawling the MobileCoin Quorum System
Charmaine Ndolo, Sebastian Henningsen, Martin Florian
We continuously crawl the young MobileCoin network, uncovering the quorum configurations of core nodes and the quorum system resulting from these configurations. This report discus…
The Sum of Its Parts: Analysis of Federated Byzantine Agreement Systems
Martin Florian, Sebastian Henningsen, Charmaine Ndolo +1
Federated Byzantine Agreement Systems (FBASs) are a fascinating new paradigm in the context of consensus protocols. Originally proposed for powering the Stellar payment network, FB…