EarthOL: a Proof-Of-Human-Contribution Consensus Protocol -- Addressing Fundamental Challenges in Decentralized Value Assessment with Enhanced Verification and Security Mechanisms

This paper introduces EarthOL, a novel consensus protocol that attempts to replace computational waste in blockchain systems with verifiable human contributions within bounded domains. While recognizing the fundamental impossibility of universal value assessment, we propose a domain-restricted...

PT-2022-24711

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Clerk WordPress plugin versions prior to 4.0.0 Description The issue affects the validation function for all API requests, making it vulnerable to time-based attacks due to the usage of comparison operators to verify API keys against the ones...