Lighthouse Security Considerations

By Mehdi Zerouali in Lighthouse on Thu 18 October 2018

Introduction to Rust security and fuzzing, with particular focus on our ethereum 2.0 client, lighthouse.

A Detailed Introduction to RSA Cryptography

By Kristian McDonald in Cryptography on Mon 27 August 2018

A comprehensive discussion and derivation of RSA cryptography, including the generalisation to multiple primes.

Purity in the EVM

By Paul Hauner in Analysis on Fri 08 June 2018

A definition of purity in the Ethereum EVM with strategies for detecting purity on-chain.

Solidity Security: Comprehensive list of known attack vectors and common anti-patterns

By Adrian Manning in Cybersecurity on Wed 30 May 2018

This post aims to be a relatively in-depth and up-to-date introductory post detailing the past mistakes that have been made by Solidity developers in an effort to prevent future devs from repeating history.

Proof-of-work in cryptocurrencies: an accessible introduction

By Paul Hauner in Information on Wed 06 December 2017

This article provides an accessible explanation of the "proof-of-work" consensus algorithm as used in Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other cryptocurrencies.

Understanding Equihash: Mathematical Optimizations and Zcash

By Adrian Manning Kristian McDonald in Zcash on Sun 22 October 2017

Overview of the Equihash mining algorithm and potential mathematical optimisation thought experiments.