Single secret leader election

D Boneh, S Eskandarian, L Hanzlik… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2020‏ - dl.acm.org
In a Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE), a group of participants aim to randomly choose
exactly one leader from the group with the restriction that the identity of the leader will be …

Gacha game analysis and design

C Chen, Z Fang - Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Gacha game is a special opaque selling approach, where the seller is selling gacha pulls to
the buyer. Each gacha pull provides a certain probability for the buyer to win the gacha …

[PDF][PDF] State machine replication and consensus with Byzantine adversaries

M Davidson - NIST IR, 2023‏ - nvlpubs.nist.gov
The objective of state machine replication (SMR) is to emulate a centralized service in a
distributed, fault-tolerant fashion. To this end, a set of mutually distrusting processes must …

ZkRep: A privacy-preserving scheme for reputation-based blockchain system

C Huang, Y Zhao, H Chen, X Wang… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reputation/trust-based blockchain systems have attracted considerable research interests
for better integrating Internet of Things with blockchain in terms of throughput, scalability …

Private {Proof-of-Stake} Blockchains using {Differentially-Private} Stake Distortion

C Wang, D Pujol, K Nayak… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023‏ - usenix.org
Safety, liveness, and privacy are three critical properties for any private proof-of-stake (PoS)
blockchain. However, prior work (SP'21) has shown that to obtain safety and liveness, a PoS …

Mithril: Stake-based threshold multisignatures

P Chaidos, A Kiayias - … Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, 2024‏ - Springer
Stake-based multiparty cryptographic primitives operate in a setting where participants are
associated with their stake, security is argued against an adversary that is bounded by the …

Post-quantum single secret leader election (ssle) from publicly re-randomizable commitments

D Boneh, A Partap, L Rotem - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2023‏ - eprint.iacr.org
Abstract A Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) enables a group of parties to randomly
choose exactly one leader from the group with the restriction that the identity of the leader …

On the anonymity guarantees of anonymous proof-of-stake protocols

M Kohlweiss, V Madathil, K Nayak… - 2021 IEEE Symposium …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains, stakeholders that extend the chain are selected
according to the amount of stake they own. In S&P 2019 the" Ouroboros Crypsinous" system …

Prifhete: Achieving full-privacy in account-based cryptocurrencies is possible

V Madathil, A Scafuro - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2023‏ - eprint.iacr.org
In cryptocurrencies, all transactions are public. For their adoption, it is important that these
transactions, while publicly verifiable, do not leak information about the identity and the …

Privacy in blockchain systems

M Osmanoğlu, AA Selcuk - Turkish Journal of Electrical …, 2022‏ - journals.tubitak.gov.tr
Privacy of blockchains has been a matter of discussion since the inception of Bitcoin.
Various techniques with a varying degree of privacy protection and complexity have been …