# Introduction In early June, our team completed a thorough and comprehensive review of the Gossipsub v1.1 protocol design and implementation for Protocol Labs. This security audit was particularly interesting as v1.1 brings with it a series of notable and important updates that weren’t present in v1.0, including efforts to
Nervos has requested that Least Authority perform a security audit of the Nervos Network, an open source multi-asset, Proof of Work blockchain, featuring a novel consensus scheme called NC-Max. Nervos is a decentralized application network consisting of a layered architecture, including the layer 1 protocol known as CKB (Common Knowledge
Ethereum Cat Herders, Ethereum Foundation, and Bitfly have requested that Least Authority perform a security audit of ProgPow, a Programmatic Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm to replace Ethash — in order to verify the security of the algorithm and provide clear metrics about its performance. This audit is part of the overall
Least Authority performed a security audit of the Cosmos Blockchain SDK, a framework for building Proof of Stake state machines. The investigation and analysis were conducted by Emery Rose Hall and Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, along with project management support by Hind Abu-Amr, in collaboration with Tendermint team members Jessy Irwin, Zaki Manian,
By the Zerocash Team, Greg Maxwell, and Least Authority Introduction The world still needs Zerocash even though we now have Confidential Transactions. A message from Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn: At Least Authority, our mission is to bring verifiable end-to-end security to every user of the Internet. As a part of this mission, we are working on something
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, Alessandro Chiesa, Eli Ben-Sasson, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza on May 16, 2015 A statement from Least Authority Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn writing: About us At Least Authority, our mission is to bring verifiable end-to-end security to everyone. As a part of this mission, we have been collaborating with the scientists behind zk-SNARKS, libsnark, and Zcash.
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn on April 2, 2014 This is the second post in our series about security audits of Free and Open Source end-to-end encryption software. The first post in the series was about our security audit of SpiderOak’s crypton project. Our mission at LeastAuthority is to bring verifiable end-to-end security to
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn on March 21, 2014 Best read while listening to Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Why use BLAKE2 instead of Skein, Keccak (SHA-3), MD5, or SHA-1 as a secure hash function? BLAKE was the best-rated hash function in the SHA-3 competition NIST, in the final report of the SHA-3 competition, said this about