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Secret Leader Election in Ethereum PoS: An Empirical Security Analysis of Whisk and Homomorphic Sortition under DoS on the Leader and Censorship Attacks
Tereza Burianov\'a, Martin Pere\v{s}\'ini, Ivan Homoliak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24955

Secret Leader Election in Ethereum PoS: An Empirical Security Analysis of Whisk and Homomorphic Sortition under DoS on the Leader and Censorship Attacks
Proposer anonymity in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains is a critical concern due to the risk of targeted attacks such as malicious denial-of-service (DoS) and censorship attacks. While several Secret Single Leader Election (SSLE) mechanisms have been proposed to address these threats, their practical impact and trade-offs remain insufficiently explored. In this work, we present a unified experimental framework for evaluating SSLE mechanisms under adversarial conditions, grounded in a simplified…

Such a wonderful time in tech history:
▫️Certifications on Windows 3.1/95/NT
▫️PC TCP/IP & 10bT Ethernet
▫️Scouring Fry's Electronics & Computer swap meets
▫️SNA Gateways for 3270/5250
▫️OMG CDROM! 😜
▶️ The Computer Chronicles - Windows 95 (1994)
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The Hidden Wheel-Within
Falko Ziebert, Igor M. Kuli\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06830…

The Hidden Wheel-Within
There is this old, eternal question: Why don't animals have wheels? In this perspective we show that they actually do. And they do so in a physically extraordinary way -- by combining incompatible elasticity, differential geometry and dissipative self-organization. Nature's wheel -- the ``wheel-within'' -- has been mysteriously concealed in plain sight, yet it spins in virtually every slender-body organism: in falling cats, crocodilians spinning to subdue their prey, rolling fruit-fly larvae, c…