Markulf Kohlweiss

Ouroboros Crypsinous: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake

2019

We present Ouroboros Crypsinous, the first formally analyzed privacy-preserving proof-of-stake blockchain protocol. To model its security we give a thorough treatment of private ledgers in the (G)UC setting that might be of independent interest. To …

Project Everest: Perspectives from Developing Industrial-Grade High-Assurance Software

2026 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

Project Everest began at Microsoft Research in 2016, aiming to spur research in program verification to produce industrial-grade software. In collaboration with INRIA and Carnegie Mellon University, Project Everest’s goal was to produce drop-in verified …