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Town Crier: an authenticated data feed from HTTPS using trusted hardware

Town Crier proposes a bridge from an HTTPS website to a contract by running the TLS client inside trusted hardware and attesting the bytes.

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Authors
Fan Zhang, Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, Ari Juels and Elaine Shi
Date
2016
Publisher
Fan Zhang, Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, Ari Juels and Elaine Shi
Version
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Document ID
BLC-STUDY-0674
DOI
None recorded
Last reviewed
1 October 2026
Licence
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Town Crier proposes a bridge from an HTTPS website to a contract by running the TLS client inside trusted hardware and attesting the bytes.

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Zhang, F., Cecchetti, E., Croman, K., Juels, A., & Shi, E. (2016). Town Crier: an authenticated data feed from HTTPS using trusted hardware. Fan Zhang, Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, Ari Juels and Elaine Shi. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/168

BibTeX

@techreport{towncrier2016,
  title = {Town Crier: an authenticated data feed from HTTPS using trusted hardware},
  author = {Fan Zhang, Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, Ari Juels and Elaine Shi},
  year = {2016},
  institution = {Fan Zhang, Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, Ari Juels and Elaine Shi},
  url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/168},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/town-crier}
}

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CSL-JSON

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