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most citedConsensus in the Age of Blockchains

187 citations · 187 across the 1 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

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.SI2018

Illuminating an Ecosystem of Partisan Websites

Shweta Bhatt, Sagar Joglekar, Shehar Bano +1

This paper aims to shed light on alternative news media ecosystems that are believed to have influenced opinions and beliefs by false and/or biased news reporting during the 2016 U…

cs.CR2018

Coconut: Threshold Issuance Selective Disclosure Credentials with Applications to Distributed Ledgers

Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Shehar Bano +2

Coconut is a novel selective disclosure credential scheme supporting distributed threshold issuance, public and private attributes, re-randomization, and multiple unlinkable select…

cs.CR2017187 cited

Consensus in the Age of Blockchains

Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam +4

The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market wort…

cs.CR2017

Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform

Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano +2

Chainspace is a decentralized infrastructure, known as a distributed ledger, that supports user defined smart contracts and executes user-supplied transactions on their objects. Th…