Delegated Time-Lock Puzzle

ePrint Report: Delegated Time-Lock Puzzle

Aydin Abadi, Dan Ristea, Steven J. Murdoch

Time-Lock puzzles (TLP) are cryptographic protocols that enable a client to lock a message in such a way that a server can only unlock it after a specific time period. However, existing TLPs have certain limitations: (i) they assume that both the client and server always possess sufficient computational resources and (ii) they solely focus on the lower time bound for finding a solution, disregarding the upper bound …

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