Explores the financial applications of blockchains, covering the definition, history, Ethereum, decentralized finance, smart contracts, tokens, assessment methods, challenges of double spending, digital signatures, and cryptographic hash functions.
Covers fundamental concepts of cryptography, including primitives, security, encryption, and authentication, exploring symmetric and public-key cryptography, key agreement, commitment schemes, and hash functions.
Explores RSA encryption, trapdoor functions, hash functions, and cryptographic standards, including a practical example with Apple's iMessage implementation.
Provides an overview of time-lock encryption and its practical applications, focusing on threshold time-lock encryption algorithms and their security properties.
