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This paper asks a different question than most dark-web measurement work — not what content exists on onion services, but what users actually try to access and interact with
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Lattice is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency protocol designed from inception as a post-quantum secure settlement layer
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This paper proposes Proof-of-Encryption-Work (PoEW), a re-framing of Proof-of-Work where the miner’s puzzle is not finding a SHA-256 nonce but searching for an encryption key that makes a block cip…
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This Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) traces the conceptual and empirical evolution of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) in blockchain systems through three distinct chronological eras from 2014 to…
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aCAPTCHA targets a security gap that sits between classic CAPTCHA and identity/authentication — it tries to answer “is this requester a genuine AI agent?” rather than “is this requester human?” or “…
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This paper addresses longstanding limitations of CAPTCHAs related to usability, privacy, and resistance to outsourcing by CAPTCHA farms
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This paper asks a simple but important question: if Chia is marketed as a greener blockchain because it replaces computation with storage, what is its real energy and carbon footprint once you acco…
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This paper critically examines the widely held assumption in Unix-like systems that filesystem operations exhibit instantaneous atomic state transitions, exposing this assumption as a fundamental c…
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This paper addresses the challenge of authenticating commodity WiFi devices using physical-layer fingerprints extracted from Channel State Information (CSI)
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ZK-PoP is trying to solve a real tension in process attestation: the more behavioral evidence you collect to prove a human wrote something, the more you expose about that person’s identity, cogniti…
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Key findings include that tool use dramatically increases compliance with hidden instructions (Cohen's h effect sizes up to 1.37), encoding vulnerability is provider-specific (OpenAI models decode …
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This work addresses the critical challenges in social bot detection arising from severe class imbalance between bots and humans, and noisy graph topologies caused by deceptive bot connections that …
