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\begin{enumerate}
+\item Explain briefly the purpose of the certification authority in
+the public-private key encryption scheme.
+
+\item Explain briefly what is meant by a certification authority
+ becoming ``too big to fail'' when it has issued a large number
+ of certificates.
+
+\item In which situations does it make sense to install
+ invalid (self-signed) certificates?
+
\item Zero-knowledge protocols depend on three main properties called
completeness, soundness and zero-knowledge. Explain what they mean?
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\item What is meant by the notion \emph{forward privacy}?
+\item What is a \emph{re-identification attack}?
+
\item Imagine you have an completely `innocent' email message,
like birthday wishes to your grandmother? Why should you
still encrypt this message and your grandmother take the
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\section*{Homework 8}
\begin{enumerate}
-\item (\textbf{Optional}) How can the hardness of the
- proof-of-work puzzles in Bitcoins be adjusted? What is
- parameter that determines how the hardness is adjusted?
+\item How can the hardness of the proof-of-work puzzles in
+ Bitcoins be adjusted? What is parameter that determines
+ how the hardness is adjusted?
-\item (\textbf{Optional}) What is the main data that is stored
- in Bitcoin's blockchain?
+\item What is the main data that is stored in Bitcoin's
+ blockchain?
-\item (\textbf{Optional}) What is is the purpose of the
- proof-of-work puzzle in Bitcoins?
+\item What is is the purpose of the proof-of-work puzzle in
+ Bitcoins?
-\item (\textbf{Optional}) The department has large labs full
- of computers that are pretty much idle over night. Why
- is it a bad idea to let them mine for Bitcoins?
+\item The department has large labs full of computers that are
+ pretty much idle over night. Why is it a bad idea to let
+ them mine for Bitcoins?
+
+\item Is it possible that Bitcoins can get lost (be
+ unretrievable)?
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}