Mahdi Zamani

REMOTEGATE: Incentive-Compatible Remote Configuration of Security Gateways

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Imagine that a malicious hacker is trying to attack a server over the Internet and the server wants to block the attack packets as close to their point of origin as possible. However, the security …

Bootstrapping Public Blockchains Without a Trusted Setup

2019

We propose a protocol that allows the participants of a permissionless decentralized system to agree on a set of identities in the presence of a computationally-bounded Byzantine adversary. Our protocol guarantees that the fraction of …

TorBricks: Blocking-Resistant Tor Bridge Distribution

2016 · ArXiv.org

Tor is currently the most popular network for anonymous Internet access. It critically relies on volunteer nodes called bridges for relaying Internet traffic when a user's ISP blocks connections to Tor. Unfortunately, current methods for …