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Toward Mobile Distributed Ledgers

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Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup. Lookups are performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surveillance, and censorship. To address these issues, large organizations s ...

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Traffic Receipts for Network Transparency

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Towards Usable Checksums: Automating the Integrity Verification ofWeb Downloads for the Masses

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Mauro Cherubini, Igor Bilogrevic

Internet users can download software for their computers from app stores (e.g., Mac App Store and Windows Store) or from other sources, such as the developers' websites. Most Internet users in the US rely on the latter, according to our representative stud ...

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