3550. Blockchain Technology
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: CSE 3400; open only to students in the College of Engineering or declared Computer Science minors. Recommended preparation: CSE 3140. Not open for credit to students who have passed CSE 2550.
Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to the basics of blockchain technology from a technical/systems security lens. The course will cover the semantics of blockchains, popular examples of cryptocurrencies, types of blockchains and consensus algorithms, threat modeling of blockchain-based systems, formal security notions of consensus and ledgers, privacy and anonymity of payments and smart contracts, the paradigm of blockchain-based distributed services, and some ethical issues with respect to deployments in practice.
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