Decentralized, distributed storage offers a way to reduce the impact of data silos as often
fostered by centralized cloud storage. While the intentions of this trend are not new, the topic …

Since the inception of Bitcoin, a plethora of distributed ledgers differing in design and
purpose has been created. While by design, blockchains provide no means to securely …

We present CanDID, a platform for practical, user-friendly realization of decentralized
identity, the idea of empowering end users with management of their own credentials. While …

In this paper, we present the first Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation (ADKG)
algorithm which is also the first distributed key generation algorithm that can generate …

The Internet of Things (IoT) bears unprecedented security and scalability challenges due to
the magnitude of data produced and exchanged by IoT devices and platforms. Some of …

Identity management systems (IDMSs) are widely used to provision user identities while
managing authentication, authorization, and data sharing within organizations and on the …

We introduce CHURP (CHUrn-Robust Proactive secret sharing). CHURP enables secure
secret-sharing in dynamic settings, where the committee of nodes storing a secret changes …

Byzantine Fault-Tolerant (BFT) State Machine Replication (SMR) is a classical paradigm for
implementing trustworthy services that has received renewed interest with the emergence of …

With the widespread use of the Internet of Things, data-driven services take the lead of both
online and off-line businesses. Especially, personal data draw heavy attention of service …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoTs) is an integrated network collection of heterogeneous
objects which enable seamless integration between systems, humans, devices, and various …