June 16-18, 2020 in Genova, Italy
September 7-11, 2020 (all-digital)
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.
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14:00-14:10 CEST: Welcome and Introductory Remarks
14:10-15:00 CEST: Keynote
De-anonymizing Cryptocurrencies (slides available in workshop Slack channel)
Keynote by Sarah Meiklejohn
Sarah Meiklejohn is Associate Professor in Cryptography and Security at UCL Computer Science. She is affiliated with the Information Security Group at UCL and an Associate Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3).
15:00-15:15 CEST: Break
15:15-16:00 CEST: Session #1
FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange (author version, talk video)
by Kaihua Qin (Imperial College London),
Simon Janin (X80),
Akaki Mamageishvili (ETH Zurich), and
Arthur Gervais (Imperial College London)
Performance Trade-offs in Design of MimbleWimble Proofs of Reserves (author version, talk video)
by Suyash Bagad (Indian Institute of Technology), and
Saravanan Vijayakumaran (Indian Institute of Technology)
zkRelay: Facilitating Sidechains using zkSNARK-based Chain-Relays (author version, talk video)
by Martin Westerkamp (Technische Universität Berlin), and
Jacob Eberhardt (Technische Universität Berlin)
16:00-16:10 CEST: Break
16:10-16:40 CEST: Session #2
A Quantitative Analysis of Security, Anonymity and Scalability for the Lightning Network (author version, talk video)
by Sergei Tikhomirov (University of Luxembourg),
Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (TU Wien), and
Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)
Ostraka: Secure Blockchain Scaling by Node Sharding (author version, talk video)
by Alex Manuskin (Technion),
Michael Mirkin (Technion), and
Ittay Eyal (Technion)
16:40-16:50 CEST: Break
16:50-17:20 CEST: Session #3
An Automatic Detection and Analysis of the Bitcoin Generator Scam (project website, talk video)
by Emad Badawi (University of Ottawa),
Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa),
Gregor Bochmann (University of Ottawa), and
Iosif-Viorel Onut (IBM Centre for Advanced Studies)
CryptoWills: How to Bequeath Cryptoassets (author version, talk video)
by István András Seres (Eötvös Loránd University),
Omer Shlomovits (KZen Research), and
Pratyush Ranjan Tiwari (Ashoka University)
17:20 CEST: Final remarks
17:30 CEST - Open End: Online Social Gathering (Experimental, on the YoTribe platform)
University of Genova is hosting this workshop.
IEEE EuroS&P 2020 and all its workshops, including S&B, are converted into an all-digital event. IEEE S&B 2020 is scheduled as a pre-conference workshop on September 7, 2020.
The registration for the main conference as well as the co-located workshops is open: register here
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 fourth IEEE Security and Privacy on the Blockchain workshop aims to unite interested scholars as well as industrial members and practitioners 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:
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."
Papers must be typeset in LaTeX in A4 format (not "US Letter") using the IEEE conference proceeding template we supply (eurosp-2020-template.zip). We suggest you first compile the supplied LaTeX source as is, checking that you obtain the same PDF as the one supplied, and then write your paper into the LaTeX template, replacing the boilerplate text. Please do not use other IEEE templates. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements can be grounds for rejection.
Papers must be submitted online and submissions may be updated at any time until the deadline for submissions.
Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate publication clearances. One of the authors of the accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Submissions received after the submission deadline or failing to conform to the submission guidelines risk rejection without review. Accepted publications can be subject to publication in IEEE proceedings.