With the enhancement of the positioning function of mobile devices and the upgrade of communication networks, location-based service (LBS) has become an important application of mobile devices. Among the numerous researches on location privacy preservation, cloud-based location privacy preservation has become a hot topic, but it undoubtedly brings new problems such as data confidentiality and user privacy disclosure. This paper proposes an accountable outsourced LBS privacy-preserving scheme. In the outsourcing scenario, in order to make users interact with cloud server to obtain query data, firstly we construct location hierarchical index and attribute hierarchical index based on Bloom Filter, and secondly we divide one region into atomic regions using Hilbert Curve, both of which ensure the privacy of query and improve the efficiency of query. At last, we realize the sharing of encrypted data among different users by accountable proxy re-encryption (APRE) technology, which can effectively suppress the abuse of proxy re-encryption key. We demonstrate the correctness of the proposed scheme through security analysis, and show the effectiveness of the scheme through performance analysis.
We present Large-scale Known-committee Stakebased Agreement (LaKSA), a chain-based Proof-of-Stake protocol that is dedicated, but not limited, to cryptocurrencies. LaKSA minimizes interactions between nodes through lightweight committee voting, resulting in a simpler, more robust, and more scalable proposal than competing systems. It also mitigates other drawbacks of previous systems, such as high reward variance and long confirmation times. LaKSA can support large numbers of nodes by design, and provides probabilistic safety guarantees in which a client makes commit decisions by calculating the probability that a transaction is reverted based on its blockchain view. We present a thorough analysis of LaKSA and report on its implementation and evaluation. Furthermore, our new technique of proving safety can be applied more broadly to other Proof-of-Stake protocols.
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