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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Crypto-currencies are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange,
e.g., Bitcoin, but they are susceptible to attacks (dishonest behavior of participants).
A framework for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies requires (a) modeling
of game-theoretic aspects to analyze incentives for deviation from honest behavior;
(b) concurrent interactions between participants; and (c) analysis of long-term
monetary gains. Traditional game-theoretic approaches for the analysis of security
protocols consider either qualitative temporal properties such as safety and termination,
or the very special class of one-shot (stateless) games. However, to analyze general
attacks on protocols for crypto-currencies, both stateful analysis and quantitative
objectives are necessary. In this work our main contributions are as follows:
(a) we show how a class of concurrent mean-payo games, namely ergodic games, can
model various attacks that arise naturally in crypto-currencies; (b) we present
the first practical implementation of algorithms for ergodic games that scales
to model realistic problems for crypto-currencies; and (c) we present experimental
results showing that our framework can handle games with thousands of states and
millions of transitions.'
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- LIPIcs
article_number: '11'
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author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Amir
full_name: Goharshady, Amir
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last_name: Goharshady
orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584
- first_name: Rasmus
full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
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last_name: Ibsen-Jensen
orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389
- first_name: Yaron
full_name: Velner, Yaron
last_name: Velner
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Ibsen-Jensen R, Velner Y. Ergodic mean-payoff
games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies. In: Vol 118. Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2018. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Velner, Y. (2018).
Ergodic mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies (Vol.
118). Presented at the CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, Beijing, China:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen,
and Yaron Velner. “Ergodic Mean-Payoff Games for the Analysis of Attacks in Crypto-Currencies,”
Vol. 118. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and Y. Velner, “Ergodic
mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies,” presented
at the CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, Beijing, China, 2018, vol. 118.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Ibsen-Jensen R, Velner Y. 2018. Ergodic mean-payoff
games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies. CONCUR: Conference on
Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 118, 11.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Ergodic Mean-Payoff Games for the Analysis
of Attacks in Crypto-Currencies. Vol. 118, 11, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik, 2018, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11.
short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, R. Ibsen-Jensen, Y. Velner, in:, Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018.
conference:
end_date: 2018-09-07
location: Beijing, China
name: 'CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory'
start_date: 2018-09-04
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:27Z
date_published: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-03-27T23:30:33Z
day: '01'
ddc:
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department:
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doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1806.03108'
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