Mathematical Foundation of Cryptocurrency - SPECTRO

The ‘Mathematical Foundation of Cryptocurrency’ is a course taught by Peter Kutas (EIT). The course covers mathematical and cryptographic background of important concepts for blockchain, such as elliptic curves, pairings, zero knowledge proofs and verifiable delay functions.

Course content 

The course is structured into four lessons:

• Elliptic curves (with a quiz at the end)
• Pairings
• Zero-knowledge proofs
• Verifiable delay functions

Recommended reading

For this course, the following are listed as recommended readings:

• Steven Galbraith: Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography (Chapter 9 and 26)
• Daniele Venturi: Zero Knowledge Proofs and Applications
• Benjamin Wesolowski: Efficient Verifiable Delay Functions

About SPECTRO 

This course is delivered by SPECTRO. SPECTRO is a consortium consisting of 12 higher education institutions from 7 different countries, 2 innovative SMEs, and one leading research center in Information Systems and EIT Digital. SPECTRO is co-funded by the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme.