Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives with Industry

CryptBloC: Cryptography for the Blockchain

• Partners: MSR Redmond (USA), MSR Cambridge (UK), Inria

• Duration: October 2017 – October 2021

• PI: Georg Fuchsbauer

• The goal of this Microsoft-Inria joint project on privacy and decentralization is to use cryptography to improve privacy on the blockchain and decentralized systems more generally. We will investigate means of privacy-preserving authentication, such as electronic currencies, and other applications of blockchain and distributed transparency mechanisms.