Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure & Cryptography Workshop

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Peer-to-Peer infrastructure / Cryptopgraphy workshop

The session and workshop focus on the following

Distributed Hashtable

oversim
Overlay Simulation Network

Kademlia
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf

BitTorrent Protocol
BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing

BitTorrent and DevOps

Elliptic Curve of the form
y^2 = x^3 + 7

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
Secp256k1
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1

Twister
We setup and explore Twister, which is a peer-to-peer platform for microblogging.

This helps us understand the operational details of a peer-to-peer network.

We will be setting up a 'self contained' peer-to-peer network for this session.

This is a FOSS "free of charge" event.