Secure Decentralization and Blockchain Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

This is a Special Issue for high-quality papers in Secure Decentralization and Blockchain Technologies for researchers invited by the Editorial Board and the Editor-in-Chief.

Decentralizing trust in e-services has emerged in a major interdisciplinary research goal that has brought together researchers from cryptography and security, distributed computing and systems, economics and computation, as well as privacy and law. The success of Bitcoin and, more generally, cryptocurrencies in the permissionless setting, as well as the transition to practice of traditional decentralization techniques, such as secure multi-party computation, has fueled exciting research on the topic.

We invite submissions in the area of secure decentralization, including blockchains and cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, privacy-preserving and scalability-enforcing technologies such as SNARKs and zero-knowledge proofs, legal considerations of blockchains, theory and practice of secure multi-party computation, secure and fault-tolerant distributed computing and systems, and economic analysis of distributed protocols. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by selected experts on the field, and accepted papers will be published, in open access form.

Dr. Vassilis Zikas
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Cryptography is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.