Hi and welcome to my website XOR ⊕ GURU ! My name is Cristiano Paris and this is where I dump stuff about Cryptography, Cyber Security, Blockchain and Computer Language Semantics.
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Sometime, the technology behind the Blockchain appears to be out of reach for the common man. Yet, I have a passion in trying to explain the “hard concepts” in simple terms and in this one I will touch upon the idea behind privacy-preserving blockchains like ZCash or Monero. To do that, we will talk about …
Continue reading “Cryptographic “Heads and Tails” and privacy-preserving blockchains”
Recently, a few friends of mine have come back to me after reading my previous articles about elections on the Blockchain (part 1 and part 2 ). They were wondering how feasible it would be to implement a voting scheme that works in the real world. Some of the requirements I got from them are …
Continue reading “Practical auditable elections with deferred parallel consensus”
Recently, I got involved in some discussions on the feasibility of a voting scheme which can be untraceable and based on the Blockchain.
The discussions soon polarized between two opposite factions. Nevertheless, in both of them, I noticed a certain lack of knowledge on how Blockchain works and how it could be applied in this specific context. Let’s have a look then.