Seminar on Time-Lock Puzzle

Memory and time for proof-of-work in blockchain.

Su has been studying proof-of-work and time-lock puzzles in his master course. His work relies on symmetrically and asymmetrically hard functions, a work by Biryukov and Perrin from 2017. Today he presented his master thesis, and the improvements he is currently working on which is connect his framework to a blockchain based infra-structure.