Publications

Peer-reviewed Papers:

ADESS: A Proof-of-Work Blockchain Protocol to Deter Double-Spend Attacks (2024)

Authors: Daniel Aronoff, Isaac Ardis

APA Citation: Aronoff, D., Ardis, I. (2024). ADESS: A Proof-of-Work Protocol to Deter Double-Spend Attacks. In: Arai, K. (eds) Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 920. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-53963-3_11

Hamilton: A High-Performance Transaction Processor Designed for Central Bank Digital Currencies (2023)

Authors: James Lovejoy, Cory Fields, Madars Virza, Tyler Frederick, David Urness, Kevin Karwaski, Anders Brownworth, Neha Narula

APA Citation: Lovejoy, J., Fields, C., Virza, M., Frederick, T., Urness, D., Karwaski, K., Brownworth, A. & Narula, N. (2023). Hamilton: A High-Performance Transaction Processor for Central Bank Digital Currencies. 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23). https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23/presentation/lovejoy

Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems (2020)

Authors: Daniel J. Moroz, Daniel J. Aronoff, Neha Narula, David C. Parkes

APA Citation: Moroz, D. J., Aronoff, D. J., Narula, N., & Parkes, D. C. (2020). Double-Spend Counter-Attacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems. Cryptoeconomic Systems, 0(1). https://cryptoeconomicsystems.pubpub.org/pub/cb2oh2jw

Clockwork: An Exchange Protocol for Proofs of Non Front-Running (2020)

Authors: Dan Cline, Thaddeus Dryja, Neha Narula

APA Citation: Cline, D., Dryja, T., & Narula, N. (2020). Clockwork: an exchange protocol for proofs of non front-running. The Stanford Blockchain Conference.

Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies (2020)

Authors: Rainer Böhme, Lisa Eckey, Tyler Moore, Neha Narula, Tim Ruffing, Aviv Zohar

APA Citation: Böhme, R., Eckey, L., Moore, T., Narula, N., Ruffing, T., & Zohar, A. (2020). Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure in Cryptocurrencies. Communications of the ACM, 63(10), 62-71. https://cacm.acm.org/research/responsible-vulnerability-disclosure-in-cryptocurrencies/

Going from bad to worse: from Internet voting to blockchain voting

Authors: Sunoo Park, Michael Specter, Neha Narula, Ronald L Rivest

APA Citation: Park, S., Specter, M., Narula, N., & Rivest, R. L. (2021). Going from bad to worse: from internet voting to blockchain voting. Journal of Cybersecurity, 7(1), tyaa025l,
https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyaa025

Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency (2020)

Authors: Ethan Heilman, Neha Narula, Garrett Tanzer, James Lovejoy, Michael Colavita, Madars Virza, Tadge Dryja

APA Citation: Heilman, E., Narula, N., Tanzer, G., Lovejoy, J., Colavita, M., Virza, M., & Dryja, T. (2020). Cryptanalysis of Curl-P and Other Attacks on the IOTA Cryptocurrency. IACR
Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2020(3), 367-391. https://doi.org/10.13154/tosc.v2020.i3.367-391

A Lower Bound for Byzantine Agreement and Consensus for Adaptive Adversaries using VDFs (2020)

Authors: Thaddeus Dryja, Quanquan Liu, Neha Narula

APA Citation: Dryja, T., Liu, Q. C., & Narula, N. (2020). A Lower Bound for Byzantine Agreement and Consensus for Adaptive Adversaries using VDFs. CoRR abs/2004.01939. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.01939

On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption (2020)

Authors: Jiri Chod, Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas, Henry Aspegren, Mark Weber

APA Citation: Chod, J., Trichakis, N., Tsoukalas, G., Aspegren, H., & Weber, M. (2020). On the Financing Benefits of Supply Chain Transparency and Blockchain Adoption. Management Science 66(10):4378-4396. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3434

Compelled Decryption and the Fifth Amendment: Exploring the Technical Boundaries (2018)

Authors: Aloni Cohen, Sunoo Park

APA Citation: Cohen, A., & Park, S. (2018). Compelled Decryption and the Fifth Amendment: Exploring the Technical Boundaries. Harv. JL & Tech., 32, 169. https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v32/32HarvJLTech169.pdf

The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Finance: A Catalyst for Change (2018)

Authors: Michael Casey, Jonah Crane, Gary Gensler, Simon Johnson, Neha Narula

APA Citation: Casey, M, J Crane, G Gensler, S Johnson and N Narula (eds) (2018), ‘Geneva 21: The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Finance: A Catalyst for Change‘, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/geneva-21-impact-blockchain-technology-finance-catalyst-change

Practical Accountability of Secret Processes (2018)

Authors: Jonathan Frankle, Sunoo Park, Daniel Shaar, Shafi Goldwasser, Daniel Weitzner

APA Citation: Frankle, J., Park, S., Shaar, D., Goldwasser, S., & Weitzner, D. (2018). Practical Accountability of Secret Processes. In 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18) (pp. 657-674). https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/frankie

It wasn’t me! Repudiability and Unclaimability of Ring Signatures (2018)

Authors: Sunoo Park, Adam Sealfon

APA Citation: Park, S., & Sealfon, A. (2019). It wasn’t me! Repudiability and claimability of ring signatures. In Advances in Cryptology–CRYPTO 2019: 39th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, August 18–22, 2019, Proceedings, Part III 39 (pp. 159-190). Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-26954-8_6

Static-Memory-Hard Functions, and Modeling the Cost of Space vs. Time (2018)

Authors: Thaddeus Dryja, Quanquan Liu, Sunoo Park

APA Citation: Dryja, T., Liu, Q. C., & Park, S. (2018). Static-memory-hard functions, and modeling the cost of space vs. time. In Theory of Cryptography: 16th International Conference, TCC 2018, Panaji, India, November 11–14, 2018, Proceedings, Part I 16 (pp. 33-66). Springer International Publishing. https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/205.pdf

zkLedger: Privacy-Preserving Auditing for Distributed Ledgers (2018)

Authors: Neha Narula, Willy Vasquez, Madars Virza

APA Citation: Narula, N., Vasquez, W., & Virza, M. (2018). zkLedger:Privacy-Preserving Auditing for Distributed Ledgers. In 15th USENIX symposium on networked systems design and implementation (NSDI 18) (pp. 65-80). https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18-narula.pdf

SpaceMint: A Cryptocurrency Based on Proofs of Space (2017)

Authors: Sunoo Park, Albert Kwon, Georg Fuchsbauer, Peter Gaži, Joël Alwen, Krzysztof Pietrzak

APA Citation: Park, S., Kwon, A., Fuchsbauer, G., Gaži, P., Alwen, J., & Pietrzak, K. (2018). Spacemint: A Cryptocurrency Based on Proofs of Space. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 22nd International Conference, FC 2018, Nieuwpoort, Curaçao, February 26–March 2, 2018, Revised Selected Papers 22 (pp. 480-499). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-58387-6_26

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