Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies, Summer Semester 2020
Kick-off meeting for this lecture: 20 April 2020, 14:15
Link for the kick-off meeting: Zoom
Meeting ID: 974 9751 4073
Password: Please e-mail dominique.schroeder@fau.de
Given the coronavirus related restrictions, we will be offering the course in a remote fashion. We will be uploading video lectures on StudOn in a weekly fashion.
Regarding exercises, we will upload exercise questions every week and discuss them together at some point which will be announced at a later point.
Tentative schedule for the lectures can be found below. These are subject to changes and any such change will be announced via StudOn.
| Lecture number |
Topic | Date of Upload |
| 1 | Introduction | 20.04.2020 |
| 2 | Cryptographic Background I | 20.04.2020 |
| 3 | Cryptographic Background II | 20.04.2020 |
| 4 | Blockchain Background | 20.04.2020 |
| 5 | Bitcoin Background | 20.04.2020 |
| 6 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Coinjoin, Coinshuffle | 20.04.2020 |
| 7 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Zerocoin Overview | 11.05.2020 |
| 8 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Tools for Zerocoin I | 11.05.2020 |
| 9 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Tools for Zerocoin II | 18.05.2020 |
| 10 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Zerocoin formalisation | 18.05.2020 |
| 11 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Zerocoin security | 25.05.2020 |
| 12 | Privacy in Bitcoin: Tumblebit | 25.05.2020 |
| 13 | Introduction to Privacy preserving cryptocurrencies | 01.06.2020 |
| 14 | Monero formalisation I | 01.06.2020 |
| 15 | Monero formalisation II | 08.06.2020 |
| 16 | Monero Generic cosntruction | 08.06.2020 |
| 17 | Monero: Omniring I | 15.06.2020 |
| 18 | Monero: Omniring II | 15.06.2020 |
| 19 | Monero: Omniring III | 22.06.2020 |
| 20 | Monero: Omniring IV | 22.06.2020 |
| 21 | Introduction to Zcash | 29.06.2020 |
| 22 | Zcash formalisation | 29.06.2020 |
| 23 | Tools for Zcash | 06.07.2020 |
| 24 | Zcash protocol | 06.07.2020 |
| 25 | Zcash security | 13.07.2020 |