Posts from August 2016

Outsourcing in Higher Ed Considered Harmful

security surveillance highered orgsync August 29, 2016 at 08:16 AM Emin Gün Sirer

I make the case that the current trend towards outsourcing functions out of universities to third-party providers constitutes a security vulnerability, and that progressive institutions need to resist this trend to fight large-scale surveillance operations.

ByzCoin: Securely Scaling Blockchains

bitcoin byzcoin blocksize August 04, 2016 at 12:57 PM Philipp Jovanovic

We introduce a novel consensus mechanism that greatly improves security, throughput, and transaction confirmation latency of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies.