Distributed Computing Reading List

Prerequisites

• Public-key cryptography
• Digital signatures
• Cryptographic hashing

Papers

• End-to-End Arguments in System Design (PDF)
• Kademlia: A Peer-to-Peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (PDF)
• Paxos for System Builders (PDF)
• How the Bitcoin protocol actually works
• Decentralized Anonymous Credentials (PDF) by Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers

Last Modified: March 27, 2014