Friday, September 14, 2018
Computer science doctoral student Yuhao Dong, master’s student Woojung Kim, along with their supervisor Professor Raouf Boutaba, have received the best student paper award at Blockchain-2018, the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain.
Their paper, titled “Conifer: Centrally-managed PKI with blockchain-rooted trust,” describes a new blockchain-based public key infrastructure that allows users to communicate securely over intrinsically insecure networks such as the Internet. Their research was presented at Blockchain-2018, a conference held in Halifax, Nova Scotia from July 30 to August 3, 2018. Read the full story.