Kai Li

Kai Li

Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology

Giveth Project Funding

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This post verifies that the fundraising campaign listed below is officially created and maintained by our research project:

  1. We have launched a public fundraising campaign on Giveth to support our next open-source security project: Protecting Ethereum From DoS Attacks.

  2. The campaign will fund research and development of defensive tools to protect Ethereum execution clients from message-flooding attacks and improve the resilience of the Ethereum peer-to-peer network.

  3. Official fundraiser link: https://giveth.io/project/protecting-ethereum-from-dos-attacks

  4. All funds will be used for open research, tooling, and public releases that benefit the Ethereum ecosystem.

Giveth Project Funding 2

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This post verifies that the fundraising campaign listed below is officially created and maintained by our research project:

Hash Time Lock Contract (HTLC)

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Hash Time Lock Contract (HTLC)

First proposed by Lighting Network, this contract allows two participants (e.g., Alice and Bob) to swap their tokens without trusting each other. It can be instantiated by the following script:

IF
  <BKey> CHECKSIGVERIFY
  HASH160 <H> EQUAL
ELSE
  <AKey> CHECKSIGVERIFY
  <ATime> CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
ENDIF

Blockchain hard forks and soft forks

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I found a good elaboration on blockchain forks from Coindesk, that passage illustrates how Blockchain hard/soft forks were created, and what the potential consequnences these forks may bring.

TLS Handshakes

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I found a good elaboration on TLS workflows, it explains how TLS Handshake happens and how the two parties interact with each other.