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BlockPKI: An Automated, Resilient, and Transparent Public-Key Infrastructure
This paper describes BlockPKI, a blockchain-based public-key infrastructure
that enables an automated, resilient, and transparent issuance of digital
certificates. Our goal is to address several shortcomings of the current TLS
infrastructure and its proposed extensions. In particular, we aim at reducing
the power of individual certification authorities and make their actions
publicly visible and accountable, without introducing yet another trusted third
party. To demonstrate the benefits and practicality of our system, we present
evaluation results and describe our prototype implementation.Comment: Workshop on Blockchain and Sharing Economy Application
Instantaneous Decentralized Poker
We present efficient protocols for amortized secure multiparty computation
with penalties and secure cash distribution, of which poker is a prime example.
Our protocols have an initial phase where the parties interact with a
cryptocurrency network, that then enables them to interact only among
themselves over the course of playing many poker games in which money changes
hands.
The high efficiency of our protocols is achieved by harnessing the power of
stateful contracts. Compared to the limited expressive power of Bitcoin
scripts, stateful contracts enable richer forms of interaction between standard
secure computation and a cryptocurrency.
We formalize the stateful contract model and the security notions that our
protocols accomplish, and provide proofs using the simulation paradigm.
Moreover, we provide a reference implementation in Ethereum/Solidity for the
stateful contracts that our protocols are based on.
We also adopt our off-chain cash distribution protocols to the special case
of stateful duplex micropayment channels, which are of independent interest. In
comparison to Bitcoin based payment channels, our duplex channel implementation
is more efficient and has additional features
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