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| [Technical foundation]
Acquire a fundamental understanding of crypto-currency and e-payment, including basic principles, technical and business aspects. Identify key components behind the design of crypto-currency and e-payment systems. |
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| [Applications and programming]
Design and implement crypto-currency and e-payment systems / applications; and evaluate different designs/solutions for such systems, applications and protocols. |
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| [Cryptocurrency and related issues]
Understand the technologies behind different crypto-currencies and different e-payment systems, and related issues such as legal and regulatory requirements |
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| [Limitations and extensions]
Follow trends of e-payment and crypto-currencies, understand the impact, limitations, pros and cons of different e-payment and crypto-currencies. |
Mapping from Course Learning Outcomes to Programme Learning Outcomes
| | PLO a | PLO b | PLO c | PLO d | PLO e | PLO f | PLO g | PLO h | PLO i | PLO j |
| CLO 1 | T | T | T | T | | | | | | |
| CLO 2 | | | T | T | | | | | | |
| CLO 3 | | | T | | | | | T | | |
| CLO 4 | | | | | | | | T | T | T |
T - Teach, P - Practice
For BEng(CompSc) Programme Learning Outcomes, please refer to
here.
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| Syllabus |
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Calendar Entry:
The course covers banking systems, e-payment security, foreign exchange, Internet banking, wireless payments, stored-value cards, micropayments, peer-to-peer payments, electronic and crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, large-scale B2B payments and the future of money.
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Detailed Description:
| FITE3012 E-payment and Crypto-currency |
Mapped to CLOs
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| Introduction: Payment fundamentals; Different types of payment. | 1 |
| Different security mechanisms: Encryptions, Digital signatures, Hash functions, Authentication protocols, Digital certificate. Specific cryptographic primitives: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECDLP, ECDSA); concrete hash functions (SHA- 256, RIPEMD-160) | 1 |
| E-payment systems: SET and 3D credit card payment protocols; electronic check; E-Cash; Internet payment services | 2 |
| Mobile Payment Systems: Apple Wallet, Google Wallet; other mobile payment systems. | 2 |
| Crypto-currency technologies and its impact: blockchain, bitcoin (and its vairants); other crypto-currencies (e.g. Ethereum, Monero, ZCash), regulatory and legal issues | 3 |
| Trends of e-payment and crypto-currencies and their impact, advanced/emerging technologies, case studies | 4 |
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Assessment:
Continuous Assessment:
40%
Written Examination:
60%
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| Teaching Plan |
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Please refer to the corresponding Moodle course.
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