Riskless/whitepaper/demonstration/presentation.tex

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\title{"Risk" in an untrusted setting}
\author{Jude Southworth}
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\begin{frame}{Risk}
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		\item \textit{Risk} is a popular strategy board game.
		\item It is played on a single board, depicting a world map, partitioned into regions.
		\item A player owns a region of the map by stationing troops within the region.
		\item Players fight for regions by gambling some of their troops against the troops in the other player's region.
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\begin{frame}{Risk}
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		\item \textit{Risk} has a variant called "fog of war".
		\item In this variant, players can only see the number of troops stationed within regions they neighbour.
		\item This variant is therefore only played online, in a \textbf{trusted setup}.
	\end{itemize}
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	\includegraphics[width=6cm]{fog-of-war}
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\begin{frame}{Proposition}
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		\item Play fog-of-war Risk in an untrusted setup.
		\item In the untrusted setup, the same guarantees should be made as the trusted setup, but on a peer-to-peer network.
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\begin{frame}{Rationale}
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		\item \textbf{Federation} \begin{itemize}
			\item Federated platforms can have longer lifespans than centralised platforms.
			\item Federated platforms are more resistant to censorship and can help promote anonymity and privacy.
			\item Federated platforms encourage user freedom.
		\end{itemize}
		\item \textbf{Security} \begin{itemize}
			\item Constantly looking for ways to secure against threats specific to federated and decentralised infrastructures.
			\item Security issues can be devastating even to decentralised infrastructures.
		\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}{State of the art}
	\begin{itemize}
		\item Private key encryption.
		\item Signatures.
		\item Additive homomorphic encryption.
		\item \textbf{Web platform}. Rapidly evolving.
		\item \textbf{Monero, Zcash}. Decentralised ledgers respectively using the \textit{Bulletproof} and \textit{ZK-SNARK} zero-knowledge proof systems.
	\end{itemize}
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\begin{frame}{Results}
	Emulated P2P environment using WebSockets.
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\begin{frame}{Results}
	Produce shared random values without beacons using commitment schemes.
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\begin{frame}{Results}
	Generating large primes using ECMAScript \texttt{BigInt} and Rabin-Miller.
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\begin{frame}{Results}
	Implementation of the Paillier additive homomorphic cryptosystem.
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\begin{frame}{Results}
	Implementation of Risk.
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\begin{frame}{Citations}
	\textit{Image} Risk game board by CMG Lee, the asterisk denoting the missing link in the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition, based on shapes from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Risk\_board.svg. 11 November 2008. CC-BY-SA 4.0
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