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Foundations of Cryptocurrencies (FoundCrypt)- Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Dominique Schröder, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Freiling
- Details
- Vorlesung
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, ECTS credits: 2,5, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 16:15 - 17:45, 0.68
- Fields of study
- WF INF-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 2,5)
WF INF-BA ab 5 (ECTS-Credits: 2,5)
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Interest in cryptography
- Contents
- Overview of topics (tentative):
introduction to cryptography and cryptocurrencies
distributed systems, system and failure models, distributed algorithms
reliable broadcast
logical time and causal broadcast
consensus and total order broadcast
Byzantine agreement
Bitcoin protocols
Nakamoto consensus
Bitcoin mining
Ripple and Payment networks
Redactable blockchainLernziele und Kompetenzen:
The students will learn to
understand current protocols behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
analyse their properties and assess their weaknesses
assess the properties of new cryptocurrencies from the literature
- ECTS information:
- Credits: 2,5
- Additional information
- Expected participants: 40, Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 40
- Assigned lectures
- UE: Foundations of Cryptocurrencies - Übung
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Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Dominique Schröder, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Felix Freiling
Time and place: Fri 10:15 - 11:45, 02.133-113
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2017:
- Foundations of Cryptocurrencies (FoundCrypt)
- Department: Chair of Computer Science 1 (IT Security Infrastructures)
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