Fundamentals of Crypto Networks and Blockchain

Reading Materials

• Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems, April 1980, Ralph Merkle, http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf
• “How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document” (Journal of Cryptology, 1991), Haber, Stornetta, https://www.anf.es/pdf/Haber_Stornetta.pdf
• A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, Eric Hughes, 1993, https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
• Smart Contracts, 1994, Nick Szabo, http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/smart.contracts.html
• Code is Law, 2001, Lawrence Lessig, https://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html
• Lawrence Lessig’s book (2nd revision), http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
• The Ricardian Contract, Ian Grigg, 2004, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.78.7403&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• RPOW – Reusable Proofs of Work, Hal Finney, 2004, https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/
• PBFT Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov, 1999, dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=296824
• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008, https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf