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most citedCerberus: A Blockchain-Based Accreditation and Degree Verification System

18 citations · 41 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CY2022★ 1 cited

End-to-end verifiable voting for developing countries -- what's hard in Lausanne is harder still in Lahore

Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali, Ronan McDermott

In recent years end-to-end verifiable voting (E2EVV) has emerged as a promising new paradigm to conduct evidence-based elections. However, E2EVV systems thus far have primarily bee…

cs.CR2019★ 18 cited

Cerberus: A Blockchain-Based Accreditation and Degree Verification System

Aamna Tariq, Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali

Credential fraud is a widespread practice that undermines investment and confidence in higher education systems and bears significant economic and social costs. Legacy credential v…

cs.CY2019

Pakistan's Internet Voting Experiment

Hina Binte Haq, Ronan McDermott, Syed Taha Ali

Pakistan recently conducted small-scale trials of a remote Internet voting system for overseas citizens. In this contribution, we report on the experience: we document the unique c…

econ.GN2018★ 3 cited

Navigating the Cryptocurrency Landscape: An Islamic Perspective

Hina Binte Haq, Syed Taha Ali

Almost a decade on from the launch of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies continue to generate headlines and intense debate. What started as an underground experiment by a rag tag group of p…

cs.CR2017★ 9 cited

The Nuts and Bolts of Micropayments: A Survey

Syed Taha Ali, Dylan Clarke, Patrick McCorry

In this paper, we undertake a comprehensive survey of key trends and innovations in the development of research-based and commercial micropayment systems. Based on our study, we ar…

cs.CR2016★ 10 cited

An Overview of End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems

Syed Taha Ali, Judy Murray

Advances in E2E verifiable voting have the potential to fundamentally restore trust in elections and democratic processes in society. In this chapter, we provide a comprehensive in…