Sark: Oblivious Integrity Without Global State
By: Alex Lynham , David Alesch , Ziyi Li and more
Potential Business Impact:
Makes digital items impossible to fake.
In this paper, we introduce Sark, a reference architecture implementing the Unforgeable, Stateful, and Oblivious (USO) asset system as described by Goodell, Toliver, and Nakib. We describe the motivation, design, and implementation of Sloop, a permissioned, crash fault-tolerant (CFT) blockchain that forms a subsystem of Sark, and the other core subsystems, Porters, which accumulate and roll-up commitments from Clients. We analyse the operation of the system using the 'CIA Triad': Confidentiality, Availability, and Integrity. We then introduce the concept of Integrity Locus and use it to address design trade-offs related to decentralization. Finally, we point to future work on Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT), and mitigating the local centrality of Porters.
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