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Nicolas Gailly
Researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Publications - 18
Citations - 2373
Nicolas Gailly is an academic researcher from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Commit & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 16 publications receiving 1748 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicolas Gailly include École Normale Supérieure.
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OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias,Philipp Jovanovic,Linus Gasser,Nicolas Gailly,Ewa Syta,Bryan Ford +5 more
TL;DR: OmniLedger ensures security and correctness by using a bias-resistant public-randomness protocol for choosing large, statistically representative shards that process transactions, and by introducing an efficient cross-shard commit protocol that atomically handles transactions affecting multiple shards.
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Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing
Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias,Philipp Jovanovic,Nicolas Gailly,Ismail Khoffi,Linus Gasser,Bryan Ford +5 more
TL;DR: This paper introduces ByzCoin, a novel Byzantine consensus protocol that leverages scalable collective signing to commit Bitcoin transactions irreversibly within seconds, and achieves a throughput higher than PayPal currently handles, with a confirmation latency of 15-20 seconds.
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Keeping Authorities "Honest or Bust" with Decentralized Witness Cosigning
Ewa Syta,Iulia Tamas,Dylan Visher,David Isaac Wolinsky,Philipp Jovanovic,Linus Gasser,Nicolas Gailly,Ismail Khoffi,Bryan Ford +8 more
TL;DR: CoSi, a scalable witness cosigning protocol ensuring that every authoritative statement is validated and publicly logged by a diverse group of witnesses before any client will accept it, is introduced, offering the first transparency mechanism effective against persistent man-in-the-middle attackers.
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Scalable Bias-Resistant Distributed Randomness
Ewa Syta,Philipp Jovanovic,Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias,Nicolas Gailly,Linus Gasser,Ismail Khoffi,Michael J. Fischer,Bryan Ford +7 more
TL;DR: This paper proposes two large-scale distributed protocols, RandHound and RandHerd, which provide publicly-verifiable, unpredictable, and unbiasable randomness against Byzantine adversaries.