Zaki Manian zmanian

Building enduring value from the ICO boom

The ICO boom is precipitating a profound sea change in the availability of resources for blockchain Research and Development. For the 1st time, the sector has a entry level resources for developing a radical new set of tools for the global(solar system?) economy.

Our goal in 10 -15 years is pretty clear- Blockchain based systems should be the most useful and powerful liquidity rails for all kinds of assets. We have a lot of works to do fulfill the nascent potential of the blockchain space.

Here is a non-comprehensive list all the things we need to get to the moon.

Cryptographic Engineering

Safe, mature libraries for implementing complex protocols. NACL and libsodium aren’t going to cut it. Bitcoin-Core’s libsecp256k1 and Isis & Henry’s curve25519- Dalek are the way forward
Zero knowledge proof libraries need to be substantially matured. Libsnark and the forthcoming STARK work need mature, battle tested domain specific languages and compilers for securely

Develop chaincode and unit test
Verify the chaincode works locally under "peer peer --chaincode-dev"
Vendor all dependencies into /vendor
Create a temporary $GOPATH. Copy source to either "$GOPATH/src/build-chaincode" or "$GOPATH/src/[your aboslution go path]"
"go install build-chaincode" or "go install [your chaincode path]". Think about editing hfc.js 1231-1235 if you have issues here or use the REST API
Ready for deployment to hyperledger instance

The two options for the paths depende on whether or not you plan to deploy with the SDK or REST api

#Encrypted Communication things to learn about?

##ECC

What's the difference between X25519 and ed25519?
What are prekeys?
What is the difference between a deniable and irrepudiable shared secret?

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am zmanian on github.
I am zmanian (https://keybase.io/zmanian) on keybase.
I have a public key ASB-utkMxWWWw5PJ7L4LbKoos78hYgLv_OKZd0QFnfe7yQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	/**
	* Compute the apparent security level of BN curves,
	* according to Kim-Barbaulecu "Extended Tower Number Field Sieve:
	* A New Complexity for the Medium Prime Case" -- CRYPTO 2016.
	*/
	function ApparentSecLevel(n,c)
	k:= 12; //embedding degree of BN Curve
	ln_m := knLog(2); ln_ln_m := Log(ln_m);
	return Log(2, Exp(c(ln_mln_ln_m^2)^(1/3))); // section 4.1
	end function;

	Survey/ Review papers on Ring Learning with Error

	http://www.cims.nyu.edu/~regev/papers/lwesurvey.pdf ( Very good introduction with diagrams)
	https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/12/24/rlwe.html
	https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/939 (Insanely comprehensive)


	Hybrid Protocols
	https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/599 ( First shot at hybrid TLS)
	https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1092.pdf ( A New Hope) (Peter's Paper)

	# THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT.

	{
	"target_defaults": {
	"default_configuration": "Release"
	},

	"targets": [{
	"target_name": "bitcoin_poc",

	package main

	import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/sha256"
	"crypto/tls"
	"crypto/x509"
	"log"
	"net"
	"net/http"

	#!/bin/bash
	synclient ClickFinger3=2
	synclient TapButton3=2