The rapid evolution of blockchain technology has brought together stakeholders from
fundamentally different backgrounds. The result is a diverse ecosystem, as exemplified by …

The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is a major pillar of the European
energy policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, the reportedly pervasive …

Cryptocurrencies have garnered much attention in recent years, both from the academic
community and industry. One interesting aspect of cryptocurrencies is their explicit …

A recent trend in multi-party computation is to achieve cryptographic fairness via monetary
penalties, ie each honest player either obtains the output or receives a compensation in the …

Blockchain technology is bringing together concepts and operations from several fields,
including computing, communications networks, cryptography, and has broad implications …

In 1975, Saltzer and Schroeder (S&S) elucidated eight design principles that shaped
decades of security research and development. 1 Some of them are listed as key tenets of …

Since the apparition of Bitcoin, decentralization has become an ideal praised almost
religiously. Indeed, removing the need for a central authority prevents many forms of abuse …

As computer systems are increasingly relied on to make decisions that will have significant
consequences, it has also become important to provide not only standard security …

As computer systems handle transactions and make decisions about our lives, the
opaqueness of such systems means that when faults occur, the negative impacts of these …

Abstract Research in Multi-Party Computation is constantly evolving over the years. Starting
from the very first result by Yao in 1982, to serve new and more practical scenarios, a lot of …