Fix Rings paper accuracy and evaluation scope

papers/README.md

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ This directory contains the repository-owned Rings whitepaper copy.
 - `rings.pdf`: compiled Rings whitepaper.
 - `rings.tex`: LaTeX source for the Rings whitepaper.
 - `cites.bib`: bibliography used by `rings.tex`.
-- `imgs/rings/path.png`: image asset referenced by `rings.tex`.
 
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papers/cites.bib

@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ @misc{Libp2p
   author = {{Protocol Labs}},
   title = {{libp2p}: A Modular Network Stack},
   year = {2026},
-  note = {\url{https://libp2p.io/}}
+  note = {\url{https://libp2p.io/}, accessed 2026-07-07}
 }
 
 @inproceedings{TorNetwork,
@@ -162,3 +162,140 @@ @misc{webassembly
   year = {2019},
   note = {\url{https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/REC-wasm-core-1-20191205/}}
 }
+
+@inproceedings{SFS,
+  author = {David Mazi{\`e}res and Michael Kaminsky and M. Frans Kaashoek and Emmett Witchel},
+  title = {Separating Key Management from File System Security},
+  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
+  pages = {124--139},
+  year = {1999},
+  doi = {10.1145/319151.319160}
+}
+
+@misc{DIDCore,
+  author = {{W3C Decentralized Identifier Working Group}},
+  title = {Decentralized Identifiers ({DIDs}) v1.0: Core Architecture, Data Model, and Representations},
+  howpublished = {W3C Recommendation},
+  year = {2022},
+  note = {\url{https://www.w3.org/TR/2022/REC-did-core-20220719/}}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{Pastry,
+  author = {Antony Rowstron and Peter Druschel},
+  title = {Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems},
+  booktitle = {Middleware 2001},
+  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
+  volume = {2218},
+  pages = {329--350},
+  year = {2001},
+  doi = {10.1007/3-540-45518-3_18}
+}
+
+@article{Tapestry,
+  author = {Ben Y. Zhao and Ling Huang and Jeremy Stribling and Sean C. Rhea and Anthony D. Joseph and John Kubiatowicz},
+  title = {Tapestry: A Resilient Global-Scale Overlay for Service Deployment},
+  journal = {IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications},
+  volume = {22},
+  number = {1},
+  pages = {41--53},
+  year = {2004}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{CAN,
+  author = {Sylvia Ratnasamy and Paul Francis and Mark Handley and Richard Karp and Scott Shenker},
+  title = {A Scalable Content-Addressable Network},
+  booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM},
+  pages = {161--172},
+  year = {2001},
+  doi = {10.1145/383059.383072}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{SitMorrisDHTSecurity,
+  author = {Emil Sit and Robert Morris},
+  title = {Security Considerations for Peer-to-Peer Distributed Hash Tables},
+  booktitle = {Peer-to-Peer Systems},
+  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
+  volume = {2429},
+  pages = {261--269},
+  year = {2002},
+  doi = {10.1007/3-540-45748-8_25}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{SecureRoutingOverlays,
+  author = {Miguel Castro and Peter Druschel and Ayalvadi Ganesh and Antony Rowstron and Dan S. Wallach},
+  title = {Secure Routing for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks},
+  booktitle = {5th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation},
+  year = {2002},
+  doi = {10.1145/844128.844156}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{SybilDouceur,
+  author = {John R. Douceur},
+  title = {The Sybil Attack},
+  booktitle = {Peer-to-Peer Systems},
+  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
+  volume = {2429},
+  pages = {251--260},
+  year = {2002},
+  doi = {10.1007/3-540-45748-8_24}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{EclipseOverlay,
+  author = {Atul Singh and Tsuen-Wan J. Ngan and Peter Druschel and Dan S. Wallach},
+  title = {Eclipse Attacks on Overlay Networks: Threats and Defenses},
+  booktitle = {25th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications},
+  pages = {1--12},
+  year = {2006}
+}
+
+@misc{WebRTCMeasurement,
+  author = {Kosuke Nakagawa and Manabu Tsukada and Keiichi Shima and Hiroshi Esaki},
+  title = {{WebRTC}-based Measurement Tool for Peer-to-Peer Applications and Preliminary Findings with Real Users},
+  howpublished = {arXiv:2112.02163},
+  year = {2021},
+  note = {\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02163}}
+}
+
+@article{LampsonProtection,
+  author = {Butler W. Lampson},
+  title = {Protection},
+  journal = {ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review},
+  volume = {8},
+  number = {1},
+  pages = {18--24},
+  year = {1974},
+  doi = {10.1145/775265.775268}
+}
+
+@article{AbadiAccessControl,
+  author = {Mart{\'i}n Abadi and Michael Burrows and Butler Lampson and Gordon Plotkin},
+  title = {A Calculus for Access Control in Distributed Systems},
+  journal = {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems},
+  volume = {15},
+  number = {4},
+  pages = {706--734},
+  year = {1993},
+  doi = {10.1145/155183.155225}
+}
+
+@article{MoggiMonads,
+  author = {Eugenio Moggi},
+  title = {Notions of Computation and Monads},
+  journal = {Information and Computation},
+  volume = {93},
+  number = {1},
+  pages = {55--92},
+  year = {1991},
+  doi = {10.1016/0890-5401(91)90052-4}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{PlotkinPretnarEffects,
+  author = {Gordon Plotkin and Matija Pretnar},
+  title = {Handlers of Algebraic Effects},
+  booktitle = {Programming Languages and Systems},
+  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
+  volume = {5502},
+  pages = {80--94},
+  year = {2009},
+  doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-00590-9_7}
+}