The purpose of a checksum is to determine whether a message was transmitted error free. There are many ways to determine a checksum and one of the ways to do this is to use a cryptographic hash. A cryptographic hash function has several useful properties to do this: A single Read more…
I was curious to study the behaviour of the Proof-of-Work protocol in block-chains. The essence of POW is the use of a nonce as part of the payload being signed. In order to do this, I decided to test it out with a simple signing test program. The signature algorithm Read more…
While there are many arguments about the value and valuation of Bitcoin, the crypto-currency, there is overall consensus on the importance of the block-chain, which is the technology that underpins all crypto-currencies in this world. The block-chain, as a distributed ledger, is extremely useful as a storage mechanism to replace Read more…