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Danfang Wu
dblp:359/0639
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 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 · 67% Blockchain and cryptocurrency security · 33% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network security
anonymity networks |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | BCMIX: A Blockchain-Based Dynamic Self-Reconfigurable Mixnet · IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 2023 |
Network security › anonymity networks
mix networks |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | BCMIX: A Blockchain-Based Dynamic Self-Reconfigurable Mixnet · IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
pow voting · 0.7key exchange · 0.7additive homomorphic encryption · 0.7VRF voting · 0.7IP sharding · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | BCMIX: A Blockchain-Based Dynamic Self-Reconfigurable MixnetabstractThe increasing awareness of privacy preservation has led to a strong focus on mix networks (mixnets) protecting anonymity. As an efficient mixnet, cMix greatly reduces the latency, but brings privacy leakage risks due to the use of presetting mix nodes controlled by service providers. Besides, cMix is susceptible to blocking attacks that paralyze the anonymous service. In this paper, we combine blockchain with cMix, and come up with a BlockChain-based dynamic self-reconfigurable MIXnet (BCMIX) approach for anonymous communication. In BCMIX, we design PoW voting, IP sharding and VRF voting algorithms to select mix nodes from blockchain miners. With these voting algorithms, BCMIX can mitigate blocking attacks and blockchain Sybil attacks. Then we present an additive homomorphic mixnet protocol altered from cMix. Furthermore, we design a transaction-based key-exchange protocol for users and mix nodes to negotiate keys with each other, which resists Man-in-the-Middle attacks that exist in cMix. We also demonstrate the security and anonymity of BCMIX under formal security models. To evaluate BCMIX, we leverage the distribution of mining pools in the real-world to test the system’s performance and ability to resist the mentioned attacks. The results show that with the proper mining difficulty, the probability of an attacker launching collusion attacks and Sybil attacks is negligible. Compared with the existing anonymous systems, BCMIX provides better resilience to known attacks while enabling low-latency anonymous communication without requiring significant bandwidth or storage resources. Renpeng Zou, Xixiang Lyu, Danfang Wu |
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. | 5 |