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Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University proudly showcases the work of undergraduate honors students by sharing this collection exclusively with the ASU community.

Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.

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Cryptopoly: Using Ethereum State Channels for Decentralized Game Applications

Description
All modern multiplayer games are administered by having players connect to a remote server which is used to provide the ground truth for game state and player actions. This use of a central server provides a simple and intuitive way to administer game servers but also provides a single point…

All modern multiplayer games are administered by having players connect to a remote server which is used to provide the ground truth for game state and player actions. This use of a central server provides a simple and intuitive way to administer game servers but also provides a single point of failure, as each server must be able to process all actions coming in and make a decision on whether the action is allowed or not, and how to update the game state accordingly. In cases where the server is under significant load, either from a very popular game release or from a deliberate attack, the game slows down or completely crashes. When there is a server action backlog, this can allow malicious actors to perform previously impossible actions. By instead using a decentralized platform, we can build a robust system that allows playing games through a P2P manner, filling in the need for central servers with consensus algorithms that provide the security on the part of a central authority. This project aims to show that a decentralized solution can be used to create a transparent, fully playable game of Monopoly with complex features that would be more scalable, reliable, and cost-effective compared to a centralized solution; meaning that games could be produced that costs pennies to publish and modify, taking seconds to propagate changes globally, and most importantly, cost nothing for upkeep. The codebase is available here: https://github.com/SirNeural/monopoly
ContributorsXu, Yun Hui (Author) / Boscovic, Dragan (Thesis director) / Foy, Joseph (Committee member) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-12

Mengde Signatures: The First Practical Implementation Of Proxy Digital Signatures

Description
Proxy digital signatures are a subset of proxy cryptography that enable a peer, as a proxy delegator, to delegate signing privileges to another trusted peer, who becomes a proxy signer. The proxy signer then signs authorized transactions routed to it from the proxy delegator, to then send to the intended…

Proxy digital signatures are a subset of proxy cryptography that enable a peer, as a proxy delegator, to delegate signing privileges to another trusted peer, who becomes a proxy signer. The proxy signer then signs authorized transactions routed to it from the proxy delegator, to then send to the intended third party on their behalf. This has great applications for computer networks where certain devices lack sufficient computational power to secure themselves and may rely on trusted and computationally more powerful peers, particularly within edge and fog networks. Although there are multiple proxy digital signature schemas that are circulated within cryptography-centric research papers, a practical software implementation has yet to be created. In this paper we describe Mengde Signatures: the first practical software implementation of proxy digital signatures. We expound upon the current architecture and process for how proxy signatures are implemented and function in a software engineering context. Although applicable to many different types of networks, we showcase the application of Mengde Signatures on an open source Proof-Of-Work Blockchain.
ContributorsMendoza, Francis (Author) / Boscovic, Dragan (Thesis director) / Zhao, Ming (Committee member) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-12