Peer to peer systems and blockchains 2021

Weekly outline

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  General

  • Announcements Forum
  • Final Term/Project Questions Forum
  • Peer to peer systems and blockchains 20/21

    Teacher : Laura Ricci
    Support : Andrea Lisi

    Lecture Timetable:

    Wednesday 11.00  - 13.00  VIRTUAL ROOM

    Thursday       9.00  - 11.00  VIRTUAL ROOM 

    LINK TEAM: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3af43c96b4aabc4d9c91b1925f1c95465e%40thread.tacv2/Generale?groupId=4498b374-ee66-4cf7-a624-2eb3ab282035&tenantId=c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1

    Exam rules:

    • project (mandatory)
    • oral test which can be replaced by  MidTerm AND FinalTerm
    • MidTerm and FinalTerm: implementing a simple piece of code OR writing a report on some course topic (scientific papers, blog, ...)

    You can enroll in the course, I have activated Self Enrollment, so I can send you messages by the Announcement Forum. 

    Question time is on Thursday, 15.00 - 18.00, in the Team Virtual Room of the Course.  Please e-mail me to fix a meeting in the virtual room.  

    
    

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  • PROPOSALS OF MASTER THESIS

    
    

  • Master Thesis Proposals File
  • GRADES FOR MID, FINAL AND PROJECT

    
    

    A+ 30 with honors

    A    28-30

    B    25-27

    C    22-24

    D    18-21

    E    not passed

    
    

  • MID TERM

    Deadline 18 April, 12 PM

  • Sharing content in IPFS: monitoring the bitswap protocol Assignment
  • Analysis of CAN, a Content Addressable Network Assignment
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    FINAL TERM

    Deadline 1 June 2021, 12 PM

  • Sayonara, my Major! / Bitcoin's scams Assignment
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    FINAL PROJECTS 

    The student must submit ONLY ONE of the following final projects. The text of each project contains the instructions for the submission of the project.
    
    
  • The attempt of a democratic election system Assignment
  • Bitcoin Transactions: Analysis and De-Anonimyzation Assignment
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    EXAM RULES:

    During June-July 2021, the exams will be held by appointment, the dates published on the University site are only relative to the registration for the exam.  The student submits her/his project and, after about a week, we will fix a date for the discussion of the midterm, of the final term and of the project. Contextually, the student must pass the oral exam if his/her mid/final has not been positively evaluated (rating < D).

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    The weight of the different parts of the course is the following:
    25% Mid Term 
    25% Final Term 
    50% Final Project 
    
    Mid and Final Term and the Final Project are valid till April 2022
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  17 February

  • Introduction

  • Didactic Material

  • Do you need a blockchain? File
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  18 February

  • Unstructured Overlays

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  24 February

  • Distributed Hash Tables: Introduction

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  25 February

  • Chord

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  3 March

  • The Kademlia DHT

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  4 March

  • Bittorrent Protocol

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  10 March

  • A Crypthographic Toolbox for DHT and Blockchain

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  11 March

  • NAT Transversal

    
    

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  17 March

  • Attacks to P2P Protcol

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  18 March

  • Interplanetary File System: Linked Data

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  24 March

  • IPFS: IPNS, Bitswap, the DHT
    

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  25 March

  • Data Structures for Blockchain

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  31 March

  • Blockchain: introduction
    

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  1 April

  • Bitcoin: Addresses, Transactions and Scripts
    

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  14 April

  • The Bitcoin Blockchain: consensus
    

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  15 April

  • Bitcoin: attacks, mining pools, P2P network
    

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  21 April

  • Ethereum: smart contracts, transactions, gas
    

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  28 April

  • Programming smart contracts: Solidity
    

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  29 April

  • Andrea Lisi guest lecture: Ethereum Smart Contract development (part 1)
    

  • Andrea Lisi guest lecture: Ethereum Smart Contract Development (part 2)
    

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  5 May

  • Smart Contract Vulnerabilities, the Ethereum Blockchain
    

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  6 May

  • Dapp Tutorial File
  • Scaling Blockchain

  • Andrea's Lisi Lab: Ethereum DAPP development
    

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  12 May

  • Off-chain payments: the Lightning Network
    

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  13 May

  • Alternative Consensus: Quorum Based Systems, PBFT
    

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  20 May

  • Pure Proof of Stake: Algorand
    

  • Blockchain Applications