Journal of Generalized Lie Theory and Applications

Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Publications

• Mini Review   
  The Verifiable Delay Function and Its Blockchain Applications
  Author(s): Vincent Bouchard*
  
  Since it was first proposed in 2018, researchers have paid attention to the concept of verifiable delay functions. Verifiable delay has numerous applications in blockchain research, including: computational timestamping, public random beacons, blockchains that use fewer resources and data replication proofs This paper provides an overview of the various types of verifiable delay functions as well as an introduction to the concept of verifiable delay functions. First, weak verifiable delay functions, incremental verifiable delay functions, decodable verifiable delay functions and trapdoor verifiable delay functions are introduced, along with their descriptions and characteristics. Two security assumptions are typically used to construct verifiable delay functions: structural assumption or algebraic assumption. On the basis of cryptography theory, the security assump.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/1736-4337.2022.16.366

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