Michael Davidson

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Requirements for Cryptographic Accordions

April 11, 2025

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Yu Long Chen, Michael Davidson, Morris Dworkin, John Kelsey, Yu Sasaki, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Alyssa Thompson, Nicky Mouha, Donghoon Chang

This report introduces the cryptographic accordion as a tweakable, variable-input-length strong pseudorandom permutation (VIL-SPRP) that is constructed from an

Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

David Cooper, Daniel Apon, Quynh H. Dang, Michael S. Davidson, Morris Dworkin, Carl Miller

This recommendation specifies two algorithms that can be used to generate a digital signature, both of which are stateful hash-based signature schemes: the

NIST Roadmap Toward Criteria for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives

July 7, 2020

Author(s)

Luis Brandao, Michael S. Davidson, Apostol T. Vassilev

This document constitutes a preparation toward devising criteria for the standardization of threshold schemes for cryptographic primitives by the National

On the Profitability of Selfish Mining Against Multiple Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms

January 29, 2020

Author(s)

Michael S. Davidson, Tyler J. Diamond

The selfish mining attack allows cryptocurrency miners to mine more than their "fair share" of blocks, stealing revenue from other miners while reducing the

A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems

January 14, 2020

Author(s)

Loic D. Lesavre, Priam C. Varin, Peter M. Mell, Michael S. Davidson, James Shook

Identity management systems (IDMSs) are widely used to provision user identities while managing authentication, authorization, and data sharing within

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