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Key recovery: Inert and public (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Boyd, C., Boyen, X., Carr, C., & Haines, T. (2017). Key recovery: Inert and public. In Paradigms in Cryptology - Mycrypt 2016. Malicious and Exploratory Cryptology - Second International Conference, Mycrypt 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, (111-126). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61273-7_6

We propose a public key infrastructure framework, inspired by modern distributed cryptocurrencies, that allows for tunable key escrow, where the availability of key escrow is only provided under strict conditions and enforced through cryptographic me... Read More about Key recovery: Inert and public.

CARIBE: Cascaded IBE for maximum flexibility and user-side control (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Hale, B., Carr, C., & Gligoroski, D. (2017). CARIBE: Cascaded IBE for maximum flexibility and user-side control. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61273-7_19

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Mass surveillance and a lack of end-user encryption, coupled with a growing demand for key escrow under legal oversight and certificate authority security concerns, raise the question of the appropriatenes... Read More about CARIBE: Cascaded IBE for maximum flexibility and user-side control.

Bitcoin unchained (2017)
Journal Article
Carr, C., Boyd, C., Boyen, X., & Haines, T. (2017). Bitcoin unchained. ERCIM News, 2017(110),

Bitcoin’s distributed ledger is an innovative way of solving the double spending problem in a decentralised system. However, it causes incompressible transaction delays and incentivises consolidation of mining power. We ask, is it possible to elimina... Read More about Bitcoin unchained.