Research & Reading

Research/Reading topics/projects related to DOS protocols

Basics:

• What is the math behind elliptic curve cryptography?
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography: a gentle introduction
• Exploring Elliptic Curve Pairings
• Elliptic Curves
• Choosing safe curves for elliptic-curve cryptography

Signatures BLS and Schnorr:

Schnorr:

• How Schnorr signatures may improve Bitcoin
• Schnorr key aggregation, multisig and Rogue Key Attack
• Scaling bitcoin - schnorr signatures

BLS:

• BLS signatures: better than Schnorr
• Secret Sharing and Threshold Signatures with BLS
• BLS: Is it really that slow?
• Sample
• EIP196 precompiled contract for point add and scalar multiply on bn256
• EIP197 precompiled contract for pairing check
• EIP to reduce gas costs for precompiled contracts

Smart Contracts, Solidity, and Go:

• Solidity documentation
• Official Ethereum Yellowpaper
• Beigepaper Yellowpaper
• Ethereum Development with Go
• A Step By Step Guide To Testing and Deploying Ethereum Smart Contracts in Go
• Unit testing Solidity contracts on Ethereum with Go

Advanced:

Secret Sharing:

• A webpage summarizing secret sharing

Group Signatures:

• A Survey of Group Signature Technique, its Applications and Attacks
• Group Signatures Authentication with Privacy
• http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.897/spring04/L26.pdf
• Practical Threshold Signatures
• Group Signature Schemes with Distributed Traceability (or how to open a signature fairly

Threshold Signatures:

• (TODO) t-RSA V.S. t-BLS benchmark test

SWIM:

• Serf Example

DKG:

Verifiable Computation & zk-SNARK:

• Pinocchio

P2P

• Ethereum from scratch - Part 1: Ping
• Ethereum from scratch - Part 2: Pinging a Bootnode
• Ethereum from scratch - Part 3: Decoding Bootnode Response
• Kademlia: A Design Specification
• Implementing-a-DHT-in-Go

Solidity, go-etheruem and smart contract security:

• Crypto Zombies
• Solidity Official Docs
• OpenZeppelin
• Smart Contract Best Practices, Consensys
• Solidity Challenge Tests by OpenZeppelin
• Native Dapps
• go-ethereum
• A Step By Step Guide To Testing and Deploying Ethereum Smart Contracts in Go
• Seebug
• Gas Optimization

Golang:

• named return arguments
• fmt.Stringer interface
• Profiling and optimizing Go web applications
• Daily code optimization using benchmarks and profiling in Golang