The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Federal Reserve policymakers are split over whether they should continue cutting interest rates, ending a period of consensus that has defined Chair Jerome Powell’s leadership of the central bank. The ...

When Christine Peringer attended her first United Nations climate conference in 2019, she was not exactly impressed. As a professional facilitator and a member of Mediators Beyond Borders ...

Objective Interpersonal violence (IV) in sport is challenging to define, prevent and remedy due to its subjectivity and complexity. The 2024 International Olympic Committee Consensus on Interpersonal ...

Consensus mechanisms are the backbone of blockchain technology. They define how participants in a decentralized network agree on the validity of transactions and the state of the ledger without ...

Consensus mechanisms underpin the effective operation of blockchains by ensuring a single consistent and honest ledger. The design and implementation of these consensus mechanisms can improve or ...

A curated list of awesome resources, tools, research papers, and educational content on consensus algorithms. Consensus algorithms are fundamental to distributed systems and blockchain networks, ...

High-performance distributed job processing system with multiple consensus algorithms (Bully, Raft, Gossip), advanced load balancing, JWT auth, TLS encryption, and comprehensive monitoring via ...

Abstract: To solve issues of frequent network topology changes to slow consensus speed, and low security in consensus algorithms within heterogeneous dynamic IoT systems, we propose a fast consensus ...