Computer Security – ESORICS 2020: 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020, Guildford, UK, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings, Part II

In the last decade, decentralisation emerged as a much anticipated development in the greater space of information and communications technology. Venerated by some and disparaged by others, blockchain technology became a familiar term, springing up in a wide array of expected and some times unexpected contexts. With the peak of the hype behind us, in this talk I look back, distilling what have we learned about the science and engineering of building secure and reliable systems, then I overview the present state of the art and finally I delve into the future, appraising this technology in its potential to impact the way we design and deploy information and communications technology services. Lattices and Zero-Knowledge