Internet of Things (IoT) allows billions of physical objects to be connected to collect and
exchange data for offering various applications, such as environmental monitoring …

Besides attracting a billion dollar economy, Bitcoin revolutionized the field of digital
currencies and influenced many adjacent areas. This also induced significant scientific …

We construct new multi-signature schemes that provide new functionality. Our schemes are
designed to reduce the size of the Bitcoin blockchain, but are useful in many other settings …

Due to the strong analytical ability of big data, deep learning has been widely applied to
model on the collected data in industrial Internet of Things (IoT). However, for privacy issues …

We describe a new Schnorr-based multi-signature scheme (ie, a protocol which allows a
group of signers to produce a short, joint signature on a common message) called MuSig …

Secure aggregation consists of computing the sum of data collected from multiple sources
without disclosing these individual inputs. Secure aggregation has been found useful for …

Providing an efficient anonymous authentication scheme in vehicular ad hoc networks
(VANETs) with low computational cost is a challenging issue. Even though, there are some …

Blockchain, as one of the most promising technology, has attracted tremendous attention.
The interesting characteristics of blockchain are decentralized ledger and strong security …

Bitcoin is the most widely known distributed, peer-to-peer payment network without
existence of a central authority. In Bitcoin, users do not use real names; instead …

Blockchain, as one of the crypto-intensive creatures, has become a very hot topic recently.
Although many surveys have recently been dedicated to the security and privacy issues of …