Timelock encryption

[George Violaris]

Some interesting reading regarding timelock encryption. Given crypto 
breakthroughs through cryptocurrency and smart contracts, it is 
interesting to be able to apply such techniques in fields such as 
insurance, bonds, trading, etc.

The big issue up to now with these is that a trusted third party, e.g, a 
server, was required to keep track. However now with bitcoin and 
blockchain technologies, this kind of research is starting to change.

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Gwern.net - Self-Decrypting Files: 
https://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting-files

Rabin & Thorpe - Time-Lapse Cryptogrpahy: 
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cat/tlc.pdf / 
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cat/papers/tlc-poster.pdf

Tibor Jager - How to Build Time-Lock Encryption: 
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/478

Jia Liu and Saqib A. Kakvi and Bogdan Warinschi - Extractable Witness 
Encryption and Timed-Release Encryption from Bitcoin

./gv