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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]