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SUMMARY:Improvements on Distributed Ledgers Applications and Self Sovereig
 n Identity Systems
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DTEND:20180829T160000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Nicolas Gailly\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. Jea
 n-Pierre Hubaux\nThesis advisor: Prof. Bryan Ford\nCo-examiner: Prof. Kate
 rina Argyraki\n\nAbstract\nThe digitalization of most of today's world act
 ivities have given rise to a new class of decentralized and trustless syst
 ems. For one\, distributed ledgers have found practical use in less than 1
 0 years and have generated an multi billion alternative economy. In this p
 rocess\, distributed ledgers generated its lot of challenging problems whe
 re cryptography is a core piece\, such as how to create decentralized digi
 tal voting solutions\, market place\, or collaboration or sharing platform
 s\, or more generically decentralized protocols such as randomness generat
 ion. Secondly\, the increased connectivity of the mass have led to a massi
 ve use of digital online services where an user can have many different on
 line identities. Most often\, the private information stored in these digi
 tal identities is left ot the identity provider\, and users have no contro
 l over it\, leading to many stories of identity theft\, and the selling of
  personally identifiable information for profit. There has been a recent s
 urge of solutions using distributed ledgers to promote self sovereign digi
 tal identities solutions\, by bringing the trustless nature of distributed
  ledgers to solve the inherent issues of managing an identity system. This
  thesis intends to perform a systematic study of these two synergistic dom
 ains and to improve the state of the art systems and protocols to enhance 
 the protection of mass users of these new technologies.\n\nBackground pape
 rs\nCONIKS: Bringing Key Transparency to end users\, by M. Melara\, A. Bla
 nkstein\, J. Bonneau\, E. Felten\, and M. Freedman\nDecentralizing public 
 key infrastructure with ClaimChain\, by  B. Kulynych\, M. Isaakidis\, C. 
 Troncoso\, G. Danezis\nCatena: Efficient Non-equivocation via BitCoin\, by
  A. Tomescu and S. Devadas
LOCATION:BC 229 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20229
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