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Enabling Third Layer Bitcoin Applications Using Lightning Network, Ahmet Kurt
Enabling Third Layer Bitcoin Applications Using Lightning Network, Ahmet Kurt
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
When Bitcoin was introduced in 2009, it created a big sensation in the world as it was first of its kind. Since then, a lot of different cryptocurrencies were proposed. Today, cryptocurrencies can be used to pay for goods and services similar to using cash or credit cards. However, none of them could replace or supersede Bitcoin in usage or market capitalization. Current market conditions still imply that it will stay the same way. However, Bitcoin suffers from very low transaction per second (TPS) which limits its usability on large scale. There have been numerous proposals to increase its scalability …
Privacy-Aware Security Applications In The Era Of Internet Of Things, Abbas Acar
Privacy-Aware Security Applications In The Era Of Internet Of Things, Abbas Acar
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, we introduce several novel privacy-aware security applications. We split these contributions into three main categories: First, to strengthen the current authentication mechanisms, we designed two novel privacy-aware alternative complementary authentication mechanisms, Continuous Authentication (CA) and Multi-factor Authentication (MFA). Our first system is Wearable-assisted Continuous Authentication (WACA), where we used the sensor data collected from a wrist-worn device to authenticate users continuously. Then, we improved WACA by integrating a noise-tolerant template matching technique called NTT-Sec to make it privacy-aware as the collected data can be sensitive. We also designed a novel, lightweight, Privacy-aware Continuous Authentication (PACA) protocol. PACA …