Cryptography is essential for the security of online communication, cars and implanted
medical devices. However, many commonly used cryptosystems will be completely broken …

Wide-scale adoption of the Internet of Everything requires decentralized security,
responsibility, and trust among the stakeholders. All these can be achieved by a Distributed …

Blockchains have seen growing traction with cryptocurrencies reaching a market cap of over
1 trillion dollars, major institution investors taking interests, and global impacts on …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is heavily affecting our daily lives in many domains,
ranging from tiny wearable devices to large industrial systems. Consequently, a wide variety …

While showing great promise, Bitcoin requires users to wait tens of minutes for transactions
to commit, and even then, offering only probabilistic guarantees. This paper introduces …

Consumer genomics databases have reached the scale of millions of individuals. Recently,
law enforcement authorities have exploited some of these databases to identify suspects via …

Side-channel risks of Intel SGX have recently attracted great attention. Under the spotlight is
the newly discovered page-fault attack, in which an OS-level adversary induces page faults …

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 …

This article introduces a method of hiding transaction amounts in the strongly decentralized
anonymous cryptocurrency Monero. Similar to Bitcoin, Monero is a cryptocurrency which is …

The Signal protocol is a cryptographic messaging protocol that provides end-to-end
encryption for instant messaging in WhatsApp, Wire, and Facebook Messenger among …