Kostas (Konstantinos) Chalkias

Published in Corda

·Aug 9, 2018

R3 publishes a new post-quantum signature algorithm tailored to blockchains

You might have noticed a few external tweets and reddit posts mentioning that the Corda team has recently announced a new digital signature scheme that unlike RSA and ECDSA, it will remain secure even against a powerful quantum computer. Indeed, our protocol, BPQS, has been published and presented to the…

Blockchain

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Blockchain

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Jan 24, 2018

Why Firelotto’s blockchain-based random engine is not fair?

Firelotto is a blockchain-based lottery launched on January 1, 2018. It advertises itself as the first decentralised lottery platform using Ethereum (ETH) smart contracts and it is characterised by complete transparency. Its decentralised features aim at eliminating the industry’s most predominant concern, manipulation, by removing the need of a third…

Ethereum

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Why Firelotto’s blockchain-based random engine is not fair?

Ethereum

8 min read