Post-Quantum Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities

Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology DLT that offers numerous benefits including decentralization, transparency, efficiency, and reduced costs. Hence, blockchain has been included in many fields. Blockchain relies on cryptographic protocols especially public-key cryptography and hash...

Bullshark on Narwhal: Implementation-Level Workflow Analysis of Round-Based DAG Consensus in Theory and Practice

Round-based DAGs enable high-performance Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, yet their technical advantages remain underutilized due to their short history. While research on consensus protocols is active in both academia and industry, many studies overlook implementation-level algorithms, leavin...

Mentalist - Graphical Tool For Custom Wordlist Generation

Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper. Install from Source Prerequisites Linux APT package manager Check if Python 3 ...