15:45:36 <m-relay> <h​ushrom:matrix.org> Hey there, I am a computer science student who's looking for an undergraduate research projects related to cryptography, I'm still thinking of whether I could do design or implementation. Are there any topics I could do research on that could also benefit Monero and it's community?
15:48:36 <m-relay> <a​js_:matrix.org> dark:  hello, welcome
15:48:48 <m-relay> <a​js_:matrix.org> here are some open research questions https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/94
15:49:57 <m-relay> <a​js_:matrix.org> you could also take a look here for recent relevant papers https://moneroresearch.info
16:09:38 <m-relay> <r​brunner7:monero.social> dark: What's the approximate time budget for such possible research work of yours?
18:21:01 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> dark: Do something with atomic swaps or payment channels. Atomic swaps and payment channels with Monero are related problems.
18:22:56 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> AFAIK, most if not all usable XMR<>BTC atomic swap implementations are based on Gugger (2020). You could write code for one of the other proposed protocols. Search "swap" here for those papers: https://moneroresearch.info/
18:23:40 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> Search "channels" there for payment channel papers.
18:25:33 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> If you want to implement atomic swaps with a coin that doesn't have it yet, you could try BCH. bitcoincashautist has done most of the theoretical protocol work. And there is a 10 XMR bounty for it: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/37/10-501m-bch-xmr-atomic-swaps
18:27:02 <m-relay> <r​ucknium:monero.social> Or you could do it with LTC, but I think it's exactly the same as with BTC since Gugger (2020) uses SegWit. LTC has SegWit like BTC.