Gijs van Dam

Research

Papers

yearpaper
2022van Dam, G. & Kadir, R. A. (2022). Hiding Payments in Lightning Network with Approximate Differentially Private Payment Channels, in Computers & Security, vol. 115, Apr. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2022.102623
2020van Dam G., Kadir R.A., Nohuddin P.N.E., Zaman H.B. (2020) Improvements of the Balance Discovery Attack on Lightning Network Payment Channels. In: Hölbl M., Rannenberg K., Welzer T. (eds) ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection. SEC 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 580. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58201-2_21

Preprints

yearpaper
2023van Dam (2023). Payment Splitting in Lightning Network as a Mitigation Against Balance Discovery Attacks. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1360. https://ia.cr/2023/1360
2019van Dam, G., Kadir, R. A., Nohuddin, P. N. E., & Zaman, H. B. (2019). Improvements of the Balance Discovery Attack on Lightning Network Payment Channels. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2019/1385. https://ia.cr/2019/1385 (peer reviewed version)

Talks

yeartalk
2022Understanding Bitcoin Series: Payment Split & Switch plugin demo, Bitcoiner Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
2021Differential private payment channels in Lightning Network, Bitcoin Sydney Socratic Seminar (video)
2021Privacy and Security Risks in the Lightning Network, National University of Singapore
2020Improvements of the Balance Discovery Attack on Lightning Network Payment Channels, IFIP Information Security Conference & Privacy Conference
2018Analyzing Behavioral Heuristics of Pseudo Anonymity, Blockchain Developers Malaysia Meetup

Activities

yearactivity
2021Master of Ceremonies at the 1st International Postgraduate Seminar on Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IPSIR4.0)
2019Liaison, 6th International Visual Informatics Conference (IVIC'19)
2018Committee Member, 4th Visual Informatics International Seminar (VIIS2018)
2017 - presentBlockchain Developers Malaysia Meetup

White papers

yearwhite paper
2014Beentjes, R., van Dam, G., Vlap, A. van Vlijmen & J., te Wierik, B. Your company future-proof with ecommerce (dutch)

Grants

yearwhite paper
2020Beneficiary of student grant for the Financial Cryptography and Data Security International Conference 2020, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia