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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Verifiable Delay Function and Its Blockchain-Related Application: A Survey.

Qiang Wu, Liang Xi, Shiren Wang, Shan Ji, Shenqing Wang, Yongjun Ren

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Qiang WuEngineering Research Center of Digital Forensics, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2467-5582
Liang XiBeijing Institute of Computer Technology & Application, Beijing 100082, China.
Shiren WangBeijing Institute of Computer Technology & Application, Beijing 100082, China.
Shan JiCollege of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2585-7978
Shenqing WangCollege of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China.
Yongjun RenEngineering Research Center of Digital Forensics, Ministry of Education, School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6602-9576

Funding

National Key R&D Program of China 2021YFB3101104National Natural Science Foundation of China 62072249
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The concept of verifiable delay functions has received attention from researchers since it was first proposed in 2018. The applications of verifiable delay are also widespread in blockchain research, such as: computational timestamping, public random beacons, resource-efficient blockchains, and proofs of data replication. This paper introduces the concept of verifiable delay functions and systematically summarizes the types of verifiable delay functions. Firstly, the description and characteristics of verifiable delay functions are given, and weak verifiable delay functions, incremental verifiable delay functions, decodable verifiable delay functions, and trapdoor verifiable delay functions are introduced respectively. The construction of verifiable delay functions generally relies on two security assumptions: algebraic assumption or structural assumption. Then, the security assumptions of two different verifiable delay functions are described based on cryptography theory. Secondly, a post-quantum verifiable delay function based on super-singular isogeny is introduced. Finally, the paper summarizes the blockchain-related applications of verifiable delay functions.

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BlockchainComputer Securityalgebraic assumptionblockchainstructural assumptionverifiable delay function

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PMID36236623
PMCPMC9571642

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