if you know a little bit of math and would like to understand the basics of MPC protocols

well

have I got a video (or two) for you

introducing the first of the BCC whiteboard sessions ! (w/ the legendary David Wong)

tired: STARK vs SNARK
wired: ROM-only vs other primitives

My friend Eylon wrote a book with Alessandro Chiesa explaining how different types of probabilistic proofs are used in the construction of cryptographic proofs. The book is now online:
hash-based-snargs-book.github.io

🎙️This week, @annarrose & Tarun Chitra chat w Georgios Konstantopoulos, CTO of Paradigm. They discuss his work over the past 2 years that led to Reth. They cover the design + goals of Reth before covering the client node landscape, future node architectures & more zeroknowledge.fm/323-2

It's almost been a month, but such good memories from zkSummit 11

Faster verification of pairings *inside* arithmetic circuits. Andrija Novakovic is a beast

Are there any PSI protocols where one of the parties is distributed?
i.e., one party would be a regular user holding a set S1, and the other party is a group of nodes that hold secret shared of a set S2

Catch the replay of my ZK Summit talk. Apps can be both private and social, without requiring users to rebuild their network from scratch

Cool cryptography too!

petition to rename PlonK-ish 'selector' polynomials to 'AIR conditioning' polynomials

My talk is now uploaded on youtube! If you want to join the ZKP security landscape, this talk is a pretty good start :)
youtu.be/Gfa4BIMMXhk?si…

Had the pleasure to talk about ZK x ID at the EY Blockchain Summit yesterday.

This flow chart is my one-slide mental model for how to attest to identity data.

In green, I've listed items that we can currently attest to; orange are suggestions I would love to discuss/explore!

looking for a cracked crypto engineer to come work with me

ideally in nyc but open to remote, DM me

This looks serious. Damn serious. Some lattice expert can say something about it?

eprint.iacr.org/2024/555

🎙️This week @annarrose + Nico | ge⬡metry research chat with Chelsea Komlo, from Zcash Foundation 🛡️ & University of Waterloo. They covered her early work on open source distributed systems, her initial interests in the cryptography research space, Threshold Signature Schemes and related concepts and then

Only two weeks to go until lift off! 🎉 Are you ready to join us for an unforgettable event? Get excited because we've got a top lineup of speakers waiting!
Save the date and spread the word. Let the countdown begin!

Register - dlvr.it/T4yDTW

all these layers make for a nice lasagna

🎙️This week @annarrose and Nico | ge⬡metry research chat with Alin from Aptos Labs. They discuss Alin’s journey to Aptos + distributed on-chain randomness, plus Aptos’ Keyless accounts, architecture and features.
zeroknowledge.fm/316-2/

I have the pleasure of speaking at the EY Blockchain Summit!

I will be talking about how to use ZKPs to *privately* bridge identity from web2 to web3. The Summit also covers upcoming regulation, AI and more privacy-enhancing blockchain tools.

16-18 April, registration below.