Hard and soft deadline: Monday, May 11, 11:59 pm.
Reminder from the course syllabus: Your lowest homework grade will be dropped.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant
Choose two of these four systems:
For both of the systems you choose, write an analysis similar to those you have written for your password manager project. Your analysis of a system should include the following sections:
You might need to do some independent research to identify sources of further information about the system. Be sure to cite those sources.
Note: If you choose Bitcoin, you will analyze Bitcoin itself, not Eyal and Sirer's attacks on it.
What to submit to CMS: A file named hw5.zip, itself containing two files named analysis_system1.pdf and analysis_system2.pdf, where system1 and system2 are elements of the set {bitcoin, civitas, fabric, proactive}. Each PDF should be 3–4 pages in length.