Search Results for author: Patrick McCorry

Found 2 papers, 1 papers with code

Consensus in the Age of Blockchains

no code implementations10 Nov 2017 Shehar Bano, Alberto Sonnino, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Sarah Azouvi, Patrick McCorry, Sarah Meiklejohn, George Danezis

The blockchain initially gained traction in 2008 as the technology underlying bitcoin, but now has been employed in a diverse range of applications and created a global market worth over $150B as of 2017.

Cryptography and Security

Sprites and State Channels: Payment Networks that Go Faster than Lightning

1 code implementation19 Feb 2017 Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov, Ranjit Kumaresan, Christopher Cordi, Patrick McCorry

Our construction is also modular, making use of a generic abstraction from folklore, called the "state channel," which we are the first to formalize.

Cryptography and Security

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