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[Teaching] Lecture series on decentralized public goods at Amrita University
Week-long lecture series on developing decentralized networks to deliver digital public goods.
I was invited to give a week of lectures to undergraduate and Masters students in the Cybersecurity Gaculty at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University in Kollam, India – with students joining remotely from their Coimbatore campus. The university is ranked 7th in India (NIRF 2024) and has a particularly strong cybersecurity research unit. A summary of the course subject matter is below.
- Introduction to decentralized systems
- Decentralization as a core value proposition
- From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0
- Trust & trust-minimization
- Public, open blockchains
- Deterministic state machines
- Decentralized application architecture
- Problems facing decentralized systems
- Anti-centralization mechanisms
- Decentralized end-to-end encryption
- Corporate & state surveillance
- Privacy as a human right
- Security, privacy & trust-minimization for data sharing via threshold decryption
- Distributed key generation
- Cryptoeconomics & two-sided market development
- A decentralized end-to-end encryption public good in practice
- Ideating a decentralized, privacy-preserving user-facing application
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