Single Scattering in Scenes containing Semi-Transparent Objects and Participating Media: Researching, solving and evaluating single scattering and transparency as a single problem

Volumetric light scattering caused by participating media has been and still is a complicated, but visually pleasing lighting effect that increases the sense of realism of digital scenes tremendously. Various solutions to rendering these effects in real-time exist, basing themselves upon the single scattering approximation. Transparency is...

Permission-less banking API

In this document we present an in-depth vulnerability assessment of the HSBC banking system. Going beyond prior work, we investigate the full stack down to the Java bytecode level and further analyze its 3 key platforms: Android OS, IOSand online banking. During the process we analyze their main security feature,OTP generation algorithm and...

A Blockchain Consensus Protocol With Horizontal Scalability

Blockchain systems have the potential to decentralise many traditionally centralised systems. However, scalability remains a key challenge. Without a horizontally scalable solution, where performance increases by adding more nodes to the system, blockchain systems remain unsuitable for ubiquitous use. We design a novel blockchain system called...