IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY ON THE BLOCKCHAIN (IEEE S&B)

AN IEEE EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON SECURITY & PRIVACY AFFILIATED WORKSHOP

June 17-19, 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology is hosting this workshop.

Security & Privacy on the Blockchain (affiliated with Euro S&P) Cryptocurrencies have emerged as a promising instrument for financial transaction services that provide transparency and integrity in a decentralized fashion. Their clever combination of blockchains with new incentive mechanisms facilitate publicly verifiable and peer-to-peer transactions without a trusted central party. As a result, they have caught the attention of academic researchers, mainstream media, regulators, entrepreneurs and traditional financial institutions. As a subject for academic research, the global and self-enforcing nature of blockchains raises interesting questions and challenges across several disciplines including computer science, law, economic and human-computer interaction. Our workshop focuses on a wide-range of topics ranging from the scalability of cryptocurrencies, achieving and evaluating financial privacy in public blockchains, permissioning access to blockchains to satisfy regulatory requirements, aligning honest behaviour in blockchain ecosystems and smart contracts through the application of game theory and mechanism design, and the critical analysis of various applications of blockchain to other domains. If you are promoting your paper on any social media channels be sure to use #IEEESB2019 Submission website is online.

Schedule 08:45 - Registration open (Note registration is different than EuroS&P, please get new badge in morning for workshops)

09:00-09:15 - Introductory Remarks

09:15-10:30 - Understanding Ethereum

09:15-09:40 - Eclipsing Ethereum Peers with False Friends by Sebastian Henningsen, Daniel Teunis, Martin Florian and Björn Scheuermann



09:40-10:05 - Empirically Analyzing Ethereum’s Gas Mechanism by Renlord Yang, Toby Murray, Paul Rimba and Udaya Parampalli



10:05-10:30 - Discharged Payment Channels: Quantifying the Lightning Network’s Resilience to Topology-Based Attacks by Elias Rohrer, Julian Malliaris and Florian Tschorsch

10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00-12:15 - Cryptography and the Blockchain

11:00-11:25 - Composing hash functions for mining by Steven Goldfeder and Luca Nizzardo



11:25-11:50 - MProve: A Proof of Reserves Protocol for Monero Exchanges by Arijit Dutta and Saravanan Vijayakumaran



11:50-12:15 - Towards Automatically Penalizing Multimedia Breaches by Easwar Mangipudi, Krutarth Rao, Jeremy Clark and Aniket Kate

12:15-14:00 - Lunch

14:00-15:40 - Blockchain Security

14:00-14:25 - Resolving the Multiple Withdrawal Attack in ERC20 Tokens by Mohammdreza Rahimian and Jeremy Clark



14:25-14:50 - Temporal Censorship in Presence of Rational Miners by Sebastian Faust, Benjamin Herd and Fredrik Winzer



14:50-15:15 - Erasing Data from Blockchain Nodes by Martin Florian, Sophie Beaucamp, Sebastian Henningsen and Björn Scheuermann



15:15-15:40 - Is Stellar As Secure As You Think? by Minjeong Kim, Yujin Kwon and Yongdae Kim

15:40-16:10 - Coffee Break

16:10-17:00 - Simulations and Frameworks

16:10-16:35 - Agent-Based Simulations of Blockchain protocols illustrated via Kadena’s Chainweb by Tarun Chitra, Stuart Haber, Monica Quaintance and Will Martino



16:35-17:00 - TULIP: A Fully Incentive Compatible Blockchain Framework Amortizing Redundant Communication by Oguzhan Ersoy, Zekeriya Erkin and Reginald L. Lagendijk

17:00 - Final remarks

Location Exact details will be posted later.

Program Program Committee Program Chairs Patrick McCorry (King's College London)

Malte Möser (Princeton University) Committee Danny Yuxing Huang - Princeton University

Marie Vasek - University of New Mexico

Arthur Gervais - Imperial College London

Rainer Böhme - Universität Innsbruck

Sergi Delgado Segura - University College London

Philipp Jovanovic - EPFL

Sarah Azouvi - University College London

Ian Miers - Cornell Tech

Steven Goldfeder - Cornell Tech

Christian Decker - Blockstream

Yonatan Sompolinsky - Hebrew University

Jeremy Clark - Concordia University

Matthew Green - Johns Hopkins University

Ethan Heilman - Boston University

Christian Reitwiessner - Ethereum Foundation

Iddo Bentov - Cornell Tech

Pedro Moreno Sanchez - TU Wien

Florian Tschorsch - Technical University of Berlin

Stefanie Roos - TU Delft

Sebastian Faust - TU Darmstadt

Jason Teutsch - Truebit

Christina Garman - Purdue University

Roger Wattenhofer - ETH Zurich

Call for Papers The emergence of Bitcoin and decentralized cryptocurrencies, and their fundamental innovation---blockchains---have allowed for entities to trade and interact without a central trusted third party. This has led to a captivating research activity in multiple domains and across different venues, such as top security and distributed systems conferences and journals, as well as a vibrant startup rush on this new technology. The third IEEE Security and Privacy on the Blockchain workshop aims to unite interested scholars as well as industrial members from all relevant disciplines who study and work in the space of blockchains. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel contributions in both cryptocurrencies and wider blockchain research. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of existing systems. Papers that shed new light on past or informally known results by means of sound formal theory or through empirical analysis are welcome. Suggested contribution topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of: Anonymity and privacy issues and measures to enhance them

Applications using or built on top of blockchains

Atomic Swapping

Big Data and blockchain technology

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, ZCash protocol, other coins and extensions (cryptography, scripting/smart contract language etc.)

Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams etc.)

Censorship

Consensus protocols for blockchains

Cryptocurrency adoption and economic impact

Cryptocurrency adoption and transition dynamics

Decentralized Applications (Exchanges, Mining Pools, Trading Platforms)

Adoption of blockchains in developing countries

Economic and monetary aspects

Economics and game theory of mining

Forensics and monitoring

Formal verification of Blockchain protocols and Smart Contracts

Fraud detection and financial crime prevention

Governance

Identity, Identification and trust in blockchain systems

Implications for existing business models

Interfacing fiat and cryptocurrencies

Intermediates in different industries and their future

Internet of things (IoT) and blockchains

Legal and policy implications of Smart Contracts

Legal status of ICO/TGE

Legal, ethical and societal aspects of (decentralized) virtual currencies

New applications of the blockchain

New business models for permissioned and permissionless blockchains

Off-chain payment channels

Peer-to-peer broadcast networks/topologies

Permissioned (e.g. Hyperledger) and permissionless (e.g. Bitcoin) blockchains

Privacy and anonymity-enhancing technologies

Proof-of-work, and its alternatives (e.g., proof-of-stake, proof-of-burn, and virtual mining)

Real-world measurements and metrics

Regulation and law enforcement

Relation to other payment systems

Scalability and scalable services for blockchain systems

Security of blockchains

Smart Contract Programming Languages and VMs

Transaction graph analysis

Usability and user studies This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive. S&B is interested in all aspects of the blockchain research relating to security and privacy. Papers that are considered out of scope may be rejected without full review. We encourage submissions that are "far-reaching" and "risky."