Here is a curated list of readings and resources that ignited our interest in realizing a decentralized Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) vision for the future. We included topics such as fundamentals, Web3, blockchain, web PKI, DNS, time, IoT security, light clients, Ethereum, as well as development tools and tutorials. We are also collecting feedback for our newly published research paper about BlockQuick, a super light client protocol for blockchain validation. DM us on Twitter if you want to share your thoughts. We look forward to hearing from you!

Fundamentals

The Future of Decentralized Trust on the Internet

Web3 Decentralized web https://blockchainhub.net/web3-decentralized-web/

Decentralized DNS Handshake, ENS and Decentralized Naming Services Explained (2018) https://hackernoon.com/handshake-ens-and-decentralized-naming-services-explained-2e69a1ca1313 Why DNS-on-Blockchain is the next step after DNS-over-HTTPS — our take on the issue: https://diode.io/distributed-infrastructure/Why-DNS-on-Blockchain-is-the-next-step-after-DNS-over-HTTPS-19231/

Decentralized Networks IPFS — introducing a peer-to-peer distributed file system https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL6X1o4k7zrJa3LX/ipfs.draft3.pdf Swarm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT7BgOH49Sk State-of-the-art of decentralized web https://hackernoon.com/a-state-of-the-art-of-decentralized-web-part-2-ea630917332a

Decentralized PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A methodology to ensure the creation, storage, distribution, and revocation of public keys. — a paper from Rebooting the Web of Trust workshop https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot1-sf/blob/master/final-documents/dpki.pdf Our take on it: https://diode.io/dpki/how-decentralized-public-key-infrastructure-will-be-the-future-for-the-web-19148/



Light Clients — thin, light, super-light clients

Overview on Bitcoin Thin Clients https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Simplified_Payment_Verification_.28SPV.29

BitCoin paper on SPV (thin clients) https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

BlockQuick: A super light blockchain client for trustless time by Dominic Letz https://diode.io/burning-platform-pki/blockquick-super-light-blockchain-client-for-trustless-time-19144/

BlockQuick Reputation Table Explained https://diode.io/blockquick/blockquick-consensus-reputation-table-explained-19182/

Blockchain Technology

How does Ethereum work, anyway? — how it functions at a technical level, without complex math https://medium.com/@preethikasireddy/how-does-ethereum-work-anyway-22d1df506369

The Ethereum Yellow Paper https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf

The idea of smart contracts http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/rob/Courses/InformationInSpeech/CDROM/Literature/LOTwinterschool2006/szabo.best.vwh.net/idea.html

Making Sense of “Cryptoeconomics” https://medium.com/l4-media/making-sense-of-cryptoeconomics-5edea77e4e8d

Research

The Constrained Resource Clients Ring of Ethereum Magicians Forum https://ethereum-magicians.org/c/working-groups/constrained-resource-client-ring

Man-in-the-middle attacks https://diode.io/blockchain/MITM-attacks-and-why-it’s-time-to-start-thinking-about-decentralized-PKI-19210/

Eclipse attacks https://diode.io/blockchain/how-blockquick-super-light-client-protocol-can-help-mitigate-eclipse-attacks-19161/

Trust of network time https://diode.io/burning-platform-pki/why-we-cant-trust-network-time-19116/

DNS on blockchain https://diode.io/distributed-infrastructure/Why-DNS-on-Blockchain-is-the-next-step-after-DNS-over-HTTPS-19231/

BGP attacks https://diode.io/security/why-the-internet-infrastructure-is-vulnerable-to-bgp-hijacking-attacks-19175/

Applications

Development tools

Truffle — a popular smart contract development framework https://www.trufflesuite.com/

Remix — a browser-based Ethereum IDE https://remix.ethereum.org/

Metamask — a browser extension that allows you to interact with Ethereum dApps https://metamask.io/

Solidity — a popular programming language for implementing smart contracts https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.11/

EVMC — Ethereum Client-VM Connector API https://github.com/ethereum/evmc

Ethereum JS https://github.com/ethereumjs

Workshops and tutorials

Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshop https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague

Learning Solidity https://karl.tech/learning-solidity-part-2-voting/

Presentation slides & videos