Status ENS Integration: Smart Contract Security Review

By Adrian Manning Mehdi Zerouali in Cybersecurity on Wed 24 October 2018

This post shares with the public details of a security review performed by Sigma Prime, which targeted an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) registrar developed by Status.

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.