hi 馃憢, my name is Akshat Sharma, I'm currently a CS grad student working in the File Systems and Storage Lab (FSL) at Stony Brook University.
I'm currently researching secure archival storage systems and their applications. I'm interested in learning about databases, operation systems, distributed systems and have worked in distributed systems at Stony Systems Lab before working in FSL.
Here, I post things that I find interesting/notes that I want to share with the world.
Notes Byzantine protocols can be used to increase the throughput of the blockchain but byzantine protocols work only with a closed membership model. Need to define an open membership model for BFT pro...
Notes After Bitcoin, other coins started popping up- Litecoin(using its hashing algo) only allowed mining using GPUs or CPUs. Monero(using its hashing algo) only allowed mining using CPUs. Ethereum al...
Notes Bitcoin Reasoning for making bitcoin Anonymous Decentralized money system No trust in the government money system How does this work in a no trust environment? Use asymmetric encryption scheme l...
Notes Types of locks - Write lock Read lock Predicate lock - Lock where multiple rows are locked for reads(WHERE clause) All of these locks are long locks(Meaning all are acquired first and then all a...
How To Set Correct SSH Directory Permissions in Linux Set Correct SSH Directory Permissions in Linux If you ever encounter errors while trying to SSH into a server, you can set correct ssh directory p...