Technical Perspective: Fairness and the Coin Flip
"Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin" introduces an exciting new idea for how to provide fairness: leverage Bitcoin’s existing infrastructure for distributed consensus.
David Wagner
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Electronic voting has spread throughout the U.S. and the world without sufficient attention to reliability, security, or transparency. Today’s e-voting systems use proprietary code, and vendors have often asserted the confidentiality of this code when independent reviews of certified systems were requested. This confidentiality conflicts with the transparency required for public elections. In order to […]
Analyzing Internet Voting Security
An extensive assessment of a proposed Internet-based voting system.
Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
They are susceptible to a variety of attacks, including node capture, physical tampering, and denial of service, while prompting a range of fundamental research challenges.
Security Flaws in 802.11 Data Link Protocols
Understanding the difficulties in security protocol design and attempting to relocate the struggle between hacker and defender to a different protocol layer.
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