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An empirical study of availability and reliability properties of the Bitcoin Lightning Network
Finnegan Waugh, Ralph Holz
The Bitcoin Lightning network is a mechanism to enable fast and inexpensive off-chain Bitcoin transactions using peer-to-peer (P2P) channels between nodes that can also be composed…
A Retrospective Analysis of User Exposure to (Illicit) Cryptocurrency Mining on the Web
Ralph Holz, Diego Perino, Matteo Varvello +6
In late 2017, a sudden proliferation of malicious JavaScript was reported on the Web: browser-based mining exploited the CPU time of website visitors to mine the cryptocurrency Mon…
The Era of TLS 1.3: Measuring Deployment and Use with Active and Passive Methods
Ralph Holz, Johanna Amann, Abbas Razaghpanah +1
TLS 1.3 marks a significant departure from previous versions of the Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS). The new version offers a simplified protocol flow, more secure cryptogr…
The Rise of Certificate Transparency and Its Implications on the Internet Ecosystem
Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Gasser, Theodor Nolte +6
In this paper, we analyze the evolution of Certificate Transparency (CT) over time and explore the implications of exposing certificate DNS names from the perspective of security a…
Vandal: A Scalable Security Analysis Framework for Smart Contracts
Lexi Brent, Anton Jurisevic, Michael Kong +5
The rise of modern blockchains has facilitated the emergence of smart contracts: autonomous programs that live and run on the blockchain. Smart contracts have seen a rapid climb to…
Endpoint-transparent Multipath Transport with Software-defined Networks
Dario Banfi, Olivier Mehani, Guillaume Jourjon +2
Multipath forwarding consists of using multiple paths simultaneously to transport data over the network. While most such techniques require endpoint modifications, we investigate h…