# References

### Autonomi Publications & Papers

[Autonomi White Paper](https://autonomi.com/whitepaper)

[Autonomous Network (MaidSafe White Paper, 2010)](http://docs.maidsafe.net/Whitepapers/pdf/AutonomousNetwork.pdf)

[Data Hierarchy Refinement (MaidSafe RFC and forum discussion)](https://github.com/maidsafe/rfcs/blob/d42c24db6ddfe58f14b347a5664710e493262ce9/text/0052-RDF-for-public-name-resolution/0052-RDF-for-public-name-resolution.md)

[Distributed Hash Table (MaidSafe White Paper, 2010)](http://docs.maidsafe.net/Whitepapers/pdf/MaidSafeDistributedHashTable.pdf)

[FileTree CRDT for Safe Network (MaidSafe forum discussion)](https://forum.safedev.org/t/filetree-crdt-for-safe-network/2833)

[The Impossible Network — David Irvine](https://metaquestions.me/2017/08/12/the-impossible-network/)

[Payments (on Safe Network)](https://safenetforum.org/t/update-09-november-2023/38807)

[Safe (Autonomi) CLI User Guide (Github)](https://github.com/maidsafe/safe_network/tree/main/sn_cli)

[Security of the MaidSafe Vault Network](https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/48569/1/Paul_etal_wwrf32_vault_network.pdf)

[Self-Authentication — MaidSafe White Paper (2010)](https://docs.maidsafe.net/Whitepapers/pdf/SelfAuthentication.pdf)

[Self-Encrypting files — convergent encryption plus obfuscation (GitHub)](https://github.com/maidsafe/self_encryption)

[Self-Encrypting Data — MaidSafe White Paper (2010)](http://docs.maidsafe.net/Whitepapers/pdf/SelfEncryptingData.pdf)

[Self-Encryption on the Safe Network (YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnvwv4z17b4))

[XOR-URLs (MaidSafe RFC)](https://github.com/maidsafe/rfcs/blob/357384147ae005e4061079b27a30f43cf379fda5/text/0000-xor-urls/0000-xor-urls.md)

### From Other Contributors

[An introduction to state-based CRDTs](https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-based-crdts/)

[A Survey of DHT Security Techniques (Globule)](http://www.globule.org/publi/SDST_acmcs2009.html)

[BIP39 Mnemonic Code Converter](https://iancoleman.io/bip39/)

[Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneh%E2%80%93Lynn%E2%80%93Shacham)

[BLS Threshold Crypto — Interface for Rust library threshold\_crypto (Ian Coleman)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBU70EjwGfw)

[Byzantine Agreement, Made Trivial (Micali) (MIT)](https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/Selected%20Scientific%20Papers/Distributed%20Computation/BYZANTYNE%20AGREEMENT%20MADE%20TRIVIAL.pdf)

[Ethereum Classic “HACKED” by 51% attack! (Andrew Butler — Medium)](https://medium.com/hackernoon/ethereum-classic-attacked-how-does-the-51-attack-occur-a5f3fa5d852e)

[CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NULPSiOGw)

[CRDTs for Non Academics (YouTube)](< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBU70EjwGfw>)

[Crypto 101](https://www.crypto101.io/)

[Git Branching — Basic Branching and Merging](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and-Merging)

[GossipSub (libp2p)](https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/pubsub/overview/)

[Human-oriented base-32 encoding (O'Whielacronx)](https://philzimmermann.com/docs/human-oriented-base-32-encoding.txt)

[Kademlia: A Peer-to-peer information system based on the XOR Metric (Whitepaper, 2010)](https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-kademlia-lncs.pdf)

[Kademlia, Explained (YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdKhNpsj8M)

[Kademlia XOR metric properties purposes (Stack Overflow)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25751928/kademlia-xor-metric-properties-purposes/25756389#25756389)

[libp2p, a modular network stack (IPFS)](https://libp2p.io/)

[Stigmergy (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy)


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