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The most important cryptography papers spanning the past, present, and future of cryptosystems & cryptology.
On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs
Computer Systems Established, Maintained and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups
Computer Systems Established, Maintained and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups
David L. Chaum — Published April 1982
This paper is the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol.
Chaum describes the design of a distributed computer system that can be established, maintained, and trusted by mutually suspicious groups.
It is a public record-keeping system with group membership consistency and private transaction computations that protects individual privacy through physical security.
The building blocks of this system include physically-secure “vaults”, existing cryptographic primitives (symmetric and asymmetric encryption, cryptographic hash functions, digital signatures), and a new primitive introduced by Chaum—threshold secret sharing, i.e. “where some threshold of sub-partial keys are sufficient to reconstruct the original partial key from which the sub-partials were originally formed”.
For more on the history of blockchain technologies, consider On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies.
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A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems
Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security
CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing
Protocols for Secure Computations
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
A fully homomorphic encryption scheme
On Data Banks and Privacy Homomorphisms
A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer
Use of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography
Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems
New Directions in Cryptography
Cramming more components onto integrated circuits
A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography
