EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Pengyu Pan
dblp:248/6119
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0003-1339-6334ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Network security · 70% Digital forensics and information hiding · 30% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network security › covert channel
blockchain-based covert channel |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | $\mathbb {ABC}$ABC-$ {\mathbb{Channel}}$Channel: An Advanced Blockchain-Based Covert Channel · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2026 |
Network security
covert channel |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | $\mathbb {ABC}$ABC-$ {\mathbb{Channel}}$Channel: An Advanced Blockchain-Based Covert Channel · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2026 |
Digital forensics and information hiding
information hiding |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | $\mathbb {ABC}$ABC-$ {\mathbb{Channel}}$Channel: An Advanced Blockchain-Based Covert Channel · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2026 |
Network security › anonymity networks
anonymous communication |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | $\mathbb {ABC}$ABC-$ {\mathbb{Channel}}$Channel: An Advanced Blockchain-Based Covert Channel · IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transaction masquerading · 1.0contactless channel negotiation · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $\mathbb {ABC}$ABC-$ {\mathbb{Channel}}$Channel: An Advanced Blockchain-Based Covert ChannelabstractEstablishing efficient and robust covert channels is crucial for secure communication within insecure network environments. With its inherent benefits of decentralization and anonymization, blockchain has gained considerable attention in developing covert channels. To guarantee a highly secure covert channel, channel negotiation should be contactlessbeforethe communication, carrier transaction features must be indistinguishable from normal transactionsduringthe communication, and communication identities must be untraceableafterthe communication. Such a full-lifecycle covert channel is indispensable to defend against a versatile adversary who intercepts two communicating parties comprehensively (e.g., on-chain and off-chain). Unfortunately, it has not been thoroughly investigated in the literature. We make the first effort to achieve a full-lifecycle covert channel, a novel blockchain-based covert channel namedABC-Channel. We tackle a series of challenges, such as off-chain contact dependency, increased masquerading difficulties as growing transaction volume, and time-evolving, communicable yet untraceable identities, to achieve contactless channel negotiation, indistinguishable transaction features, and untraceable communication identities, respectively. We develop a working prototype to validateABC-Channeland conduct extensive tests on the Bitcoin testnet. The experimental results demonstrate thatABC-Channelachieves substantially secure covert capabilities. In comparison to existing methods, it also exhibits state-of-the-art transmission efficiency. Xiaobo Ma 0001, Pengyu Pan, Jianfeng Li 0006, Wei Wang 0012, Weizhi Meng 0001, Xiaohong Guan |
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. | 2 |