activity
20152021
most citedConsensus in the Age of Blockchains

187 citations · 212 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

15 papers

cs.DC2021

Embedding a Deterministic BFT Protocol in a Block DAG

Maria A Schett, George Danezis

This work formalizes the structure and protocols underlying recent distributed systems leveraging block DAGs, which are essentially encoding Lamport's happened-before relations bet…

cs.CR2020

FastPay: High-Performance Byzantine Fault Tolerant Settlement

Mathieu Baudet, George Danezis, Alberto Sonnino

FastPay allows a set of distributed authorities, some of which are Byzantine, to maintain a high-integrity and availability settlement system for pre-funded payments. It can be use…

cs.CR20193 cited

SybilQuorum: Open Distributed Ledgers Through Trust Networks

Alberto Sonnino, George Danezis

The Sybil attack plagues all peer-to-peer systems, and modern open distributed ledgers employ a number of tactics to prevent it from proof of work, or other resources such as space…

cs.CR2019

Replay Attacks and Defenses Against Cross-shard Consensus in Sharded Distributed Ledgers

Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Mustafa Al-Bassam +1

We present a family of replay attacks against sharded distributed ledgers, that target cross-shard consensus protocols, such as the recently proposed Chainspace and Omniledger. The…

cs.CR2018

Blockmania: from Block DAGs to Consensus

George Danezis, David Hrycyszyn

Blockmania is a byzantine consensus protocol. Nodes emit blocks forming a directed acyclic graph (block DAG) that is subsequently interpreted by each node separately to ensure cons…

cs.CR2018

TARANET: Traffic-Analysis Resistant Anonymity at the NETwork layer

Chen Chen, Daniele E. Asoni, Adrian Perrig +3

Modern low-latency anonymity systems, no matter whether constructed as an overlay or implemented at the network layer, offer limited security guarantees against traffic analysis. O…