187 citations · 202 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for
12 papers
How to Peel a Million: Validating and Expanding Bitcoin Clusters
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Rainer Stütz +3
One of the defining features of Bitcoin and the thousands of cryptocurrencies that have been derived from it is a globally visible transaction ledger. While Bitcoin uses pseudonyms…
SoK: SCT Auditing in Certificate Transparency
Sarah Meiklejohn, Joe DeBlasio, Devon O'Brien +3
The Web public key infrastructure is essential to providing secure communication on the Internet today, and certificate authorities play a crucial role in this ecosystem by issuing…
Forsage: Anatomy of a Smart-Contract Pyramid Scheme
Tyler Kell, Haaroon Yousaf, Sarah Allen +2
Pyramid schemes are investment scams in which top-level participants in a hierarchical network recruit and profit from an expanding base of defrauded newer participants. Pyramid sc…
Reaching Consensus for Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation
Ittai Abraham, Philipp Jovanovic, Mary Maller +3
We give a protocol for Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation (A-DKG) that is optimally resilient (can withstand faulty parties), has a constant expected number of…
Think Global, Act Local: Gossip and Client Audits in Verifiable Data Structures
Sarah Meiklejohn, Pavel Kalinnikov, Cindy S. Lin +4
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the benefits of having services provide auditable logs of data, as demonstrated by the deployment of Certificate Transpare…
An Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network
George Kappos, Haaroon Yousaf, Ania Piotrowska +4
Payment channel networks, and the Lightning Network in particular, seem to offer a solution to the lack of scalability and privacy offered by Bitcoin and other blockchain-based cry…