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Gorilla: Safe Permissionless Byzantine Consensus
Youer Pu, Ali Farahbakhsh, Lorenzo Alvisi +1
Nakamoto's consensus protocol works in a permissionless model and tolerates Byzantine failures, but only offers probabilistic agreement. Recently, the Sandglass protocol has shown…
Obladi: Oblivious Serializable Transactions in the Cloud
Natacha Crooks, Matthew Burke, Ethan Cecchetti +3
This paper presents the design and implementation of Obladi, the first system to provide ACID transactions while also hiding access patterns. Obladi uses as its building block obli…
Revisiting Fast Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Ittai Abraham, Guy Gueta, Dahlia Malkhi +3
In this note, we observe a safety violation in Zyzzyva and a liveness violation in FaB. To demonstrate these issues, we require relatively simple scenarios, involving only four rep…
Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies
John Abowd, Lorenzo Alvisi, Cynthia Dwork +3
Government statistical agencies collect enormously valuable data on the nation's population and business activities. Wide access to these data enables evidence-based policy making,…
Pretzel: Email encryption and provider-supplied functions are compatible
Trinabh Gupta, Henrique Fingler, Lorenzo Alvisi +1
Emails today are often encrypted, but only between mail servers---the vast majority of emails are exposed in plaintext to the mail servers that handle them. While better than no en…
Seeing is Believing: A Unified Model for Consistency and Isolation via States
Natacha Crooks, Youer Pu, Lorenzo Alvisi +1
This paper introduces a unified model of consistency and isolation that minimizes the gap between how these guarantees are defined and how they are perceived. Our approach is premi…