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Security and Privacy in Computing
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Readings on: Blockchains and anonymous payment

Optional background reading: Satoshi Nakamoto. “Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system”. http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, October 2008.
[Self-published]

Optional background reading: Matthew Green. “Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer” https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer/
[part 1, part 2]

Main reading for January 23rd: Alin Tomescu and Srinivas Devadas. “Catena: Efficient Non-equivocation via Bitcoin” In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), pages 393–409, San Jose, CA, USA, May 2017. [IEEE]

Main reading for January 25th: Ian Miers, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, and Aviel D. Rubin. “Zerocoin: Anonymous distributed e-cash from Bitcoin”. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), pages 397–411, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2013.
[IEEE]

Optional reading: Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Shehar Bano, Dave Hrycyszyn, and George Danezis. “Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform” To appear in Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, February 2018.
[arXiv preprint]