Paper 2016/991
Bootstrapping the Blockchain, with Applications to Consensus and Fast PKI Setup
Juan A. Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Nikos Leonardos, and Giorgos Panagiotakos
Abstract
The Bitcoin backbone protocol [Eurocrypt 2015] extracts
basic properties of Bitcoin's underlying {\em blockchain} data structure, such as ``common prefix'' and ``chain quality,'' and shows how fundamental applications including consensus and a robust public transaction ledger can be built on top of them. The underlying assumptions are ``proofs of work'' (POWs), adversarial hashing power strictly less than
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- A minor revision of an IACR publication in PKC 2018
- Keywords
- Bitcoinbootstrappingunlinkability
- Contact author(s)
- pagio91i @ gmail com
- History
- 2018-03-23: last of 3 revisions
- 2016-10-17: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2016/991
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/991, author = {Juan A. Garay and Aggelos Kiayias and Nikos Leonardos and Giorgos Panagiotakos}, title = {Bootstrapping the Blockchain, with Applications to Consensus and Fast {PKI} Setup}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/991}, year = {2016}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/991} }