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Smart contracts have emerged as the most promising foundations for applications of the blockchain technology. Even though smart contracts are expected to serve as the backbone of the next-generation web, they have several limitations that hinder their wide ...

EPFL2024

When Your AI Becomes a Target: AI Security Incidents and Best Practices

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In contrast to vast academic efforts to study AI security, few real-world reports of AI security incidents exist. Released incidents prevent a thorough investigation of the attackers' motives, as crucial information about the company and AI application is ...

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On the Theory and Practice of Modern Secure Messaging

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Billions of people now have conversations daily over the Internet. A large portion of this communication takes place via secure messaging protocols that offer "end-to-end encryption'" guarantees and resilience to compromise like the widely-used Double Ratc ...

EPFL2024

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Decentralized storage networks offer services with intriguing possibilities to reduce inequalities in an extremely centralized market. Fair distribution of rewards, however, is still a persistent problem in the current generation of decentralized applicati ...

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Planetary-Scale Byzantine Fault Tolerance

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EPFL2024

Building Strongly-Consistent Systems Resilient to Failures, Partitions, and Slowdowns

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Distributed systems designers typically strive to improve performance and preserve availability despite failures or attacks; but, when strong consistency is also needed, they encounter fundamental limitations. The bottleneck is in replica coordination, whi ...

EPFL2023

A review of the security vulnerabilities and countermeasures in the Internet of Things solutions: A bright future for the Blockchain

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The current advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the solutions being offered by this technology have accounted IoT among the top ten technologies that will transform the global economy by 2030. IoT is a state-of-the-art paradigm that has developed ...

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DIABLO: A Benchmark Suite for Blockchains

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Andrei Lebedev, Gauthier Jérôme Timothée Voron

With the recent advent of blockchains, we have witnessed a plethora of blockchain proposals. These proposals range from using work to using time, storage or stake in order to select blocks to be appended to the chain. As a drawback it makes it difficult fo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Leaderless consensus

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Principal Component Analysis

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is an essential algorithm for dimensionality reduction in many data science domains. We address the problem of performing a federated PCA on private data distributed among multiple data providers while ensuring data confi ...

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Cryptographic Administration for Secure Group Messaging

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Many real-world group messaging systems delegate group administration to the application level, failing to provide formal guarantees related to group membership. Taking a cryptographic approach to group administration can prevent both implementation and pr ...

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Toward Mobile Distributed Ledgers

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Health data privacy through homomorphic encryption and distributed ledger computing: an ethical-legal qualitative expert assessment study

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BMC2022

Infochain: A Decentralized, Trustless and Transparent Oracle on Blockchain

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Blockchain based systems allow various kinds of financial transactions to be executed in a decentralized manner. However, these systems often rely on a trusted third party (oracle) to get correct information about the real-world events, which trigger the f ...

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Data-driven and Safe Networked Control with Applications to Microgrids

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Today, automatic control is integrated into a wide spectrum of real-world systems such as electrical grids and transportation networks. Many of these systems comprise numerous interconnected agents, perform safety-critical operations, or generate large amo ...

EPFL2022

Flash Freezing Flash Boys: Countering Blockchain Front-Running

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IEEE2022

CALYPSO: Private Data Management for Decentralized Ledgers

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Distributed ledgers provide high availability and integrity, making them a key enabler for practical and secure computation of distributed workloads among mutually distrustful parties. Many practical applications also require strong confidentiality, howeve ...

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Depth Camera and Electromagnetic Field Localization System For IoT Application - High level, lightweight data fusion

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This article demonstrates person localization using a hybrid system consisting of an electromagnetic positioning system and a depth camera to authorize access control. The ultimate aim of this system is to distinguish moving people in a defined area by tra ...

Association for Computing Machinery2021

Asynchronous distributed coordination and consensus with threshold logical clocks

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Consensus protocols for asynchronous networks are usually complex and inefficient, leading practical systems to rely on synchronous protocols. The invention proposes an approach to simplify asynchronous consensus by building it atop a novel threshold logic ...

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