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The Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains: Towards a Standardized Model for Studying Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Defenses
Ivan Homoliak, Sarad Venugopalan, Qingze Hum +3
Blockchains are distributed systems, in which security is a critical factor for their success. However, despite their increasing popularity and adoption, there is a lack of standar…
Towards Forward Secure Internet Traffic
Eman Salem Alashwali, Pawel Szalachowski, Andrew Martin
Forward Secrecy (FS) is a security property in key-exchange algorithms which guarantees that a compromise in the secrecy of a long-term private-key does not compromise the secrecy…
Does "www." Mean Better Transport Layer Security?
Eman Salem Alashwali, Pawel Szalachowski, Andrew Martin
Experience shows that most researchers and developers tend to treat plain-domains (those that are not prefixed with "www" sub-domains, e.g. "example.com") as synonyms for their equ…
StrongChain: Transparent and Collaborative Proof-of-Work Consensus
Pawel Szalachowski, Daniel Reijsbergen, Ivan Homoliak +1
Bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency so far. This is mainly due to its novel consensus algorithm, which is based on proof-of-work combined with a cryptographically-protect…
A Security Reference Architecture for Blockchains
Ivan Homoliak, Sarad Venugopalan, Qingze Hum +1
Due to their interesting features, blockchains have become popular in recent years. They are full-stack systems where security is a critical factor for their success. The main focu…
Permissionless Blockchains and Secure Logging
Chunpeng Ge, Siwei Sun, Pawel Szalachowski
The blockchain technology enables mutually untrusting participants to reach consensus on the state of a distributed and decentralized ledger (called a blockchain) in a permissionle…