LightHash: Experimental Evaluation of a Photonic Cryptocurrency

Sunil Pai; Taewon Park; Bogdan Penkovsky; Maziyar Milanizadeh; Marshall Ball; Michael Dubrovsky; Nathnael Abebe; Francesco Morichetti; Andrea Melloni; Olav Solgaard; David A.B. Miller

doi:10.1364/CLEO_SI.2022.SF2K.2

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022),
paper SF2K.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_SI.2022.SF2K.2

LightHash: Experimental Evaluation of a Photonic Cryptocurrency

Sunil Pai, Taewon Park, Bogdan Penkovsky, Maziyar Milanizadeh, Marshall Ball, Michael Dubrovsky, Nathnael Abebe, Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Melloni, Olav Solgaard, and David A.B. Miller

CLEO: Science and Innovations 2022

San Jose, California United States
15–20 May 2022
ISBN: 978-1-957171-05-0

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S. Pai, T. Park, B. Penkovsky, M. Milanizadeh, M. Ball, M. Dubrovsky, N. Abebe, F. Morichetti, A. Melloni, O. Solgaard, and D. A. B. Miller, "LightHash: Experimental Evaluation of a Photonic Cryptocurrency," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper SF2K.2.

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Abstract

We propose LightHash, the first feasible photonic cryptographic hash function for blockchain technology using programmable photonic networks. We experimentally evaluate LightHash and assess whether photonic circuits can outperform digital competitors in latency and energy efficiency.

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