Basics of distributed ledger technology. -Public Ledgers- distributed ledger technology as Public Ledgers-Types of distributed ledger technology- Pillars of Block chain- Government Initiatives of distributed ledger technology – Bitcoin – Smart Contracts.
Block in a Block chain-find Transactions-Distributed Consensus-Proof of work, Stake, Space-Attacks on POW-Ethereum-Pos/POW Hybrids-Crypto currency to block chain 2.0, Model of Blockchain- Algorand.
Hash Function and Merle Tree-Security Properties-Security Considerations for block chain Digital Signature-Public Key Cryptography-Bitcoin blockchain incentive structures- Nash Equilibriums- evolutionary stable strategies,-and Pareto efficiency (game theory) Weaknesses and news Points of Failure, Mitigation Methods, Redundancies and fall-back methods.
Mining-Pools-Impact of CPU and GPU-Transaction in Bit coin Network- Block Mining Block propagation and block relay.
Industry applications of Blockchain - Blockchain in Government-Government use cases-Preventing Cybercrime through block chain-Block Chain in defense, tax payments
Reference Book:
TEXT BOOKS 1. William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network security Principles and Practices”, Pearson/PHI,2017. 2. William Stallings, Network Security Essentials (Applications and Standards), Pearson Education,
Text Book:
TEXT BOOKS 1. William Stallings, “Cryptography and Network security Principles and Practices”, Pearson/PHI,2017. 2. William Stallings, Network Security Essentials (Applications and Standards), Pearson Education,