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Zero KnowledgeZK in Review: Decoding 2024 & Predicting 2025SummaryThis week, Anna catches up with cohosts, Tarun, Nico and Guillermo to do a look back at the zk research and applications that came out in 2024. They go on to discuss the challenges facing the ecosystem. And they wrap with a brief look forward, covering what to expect in ZK in 2025. This will be the last ep of 2024, thank you for joining us this year! Further Reading:ZK12: Welcome to zkSummit & Sponsor Intro - Anna RoseCircle STARKs by Haböck, Levit and PapiniStarkWare Unveils New 'Stwo' Cryptographic Prover That's 'Blazingly Fast'ZK12: WHIR: R...2024-12-2358 min
Zero KnowledgeLatest ZK Research with Dan BonehSummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. They discuss the focus of his research today, covering new ZK research problems and themes. This includes work on lattice-based SNARKs, ZK for content provenance, ZK in the FHE context, updates on ZK in ML and more!Here’s some additional links for this episode:Episode 256: New ZK Use Cases with Dan BonehEpisode 100: Dan Boneh on the past, present & future of cryptographyEpisode 341: coSNARKs with Ais and Lukas from TACEOLaBRADOR: Compact Proo...2024-11-271h 03
Cryptography FMEpisode 11: Breaking the Rainbow Post-Quantum Cryptography Candidate!The race for post-quantum cryptographic signature primitives is in its final lap over at NIST, which recently announced DILITHIUM, FALCON and Rainbow as the three signature primitive finalists. But a paper recently published by KU Leuven researcher Ward Beullens claims to find serious weaknesses in the security of Rainbow, one of those three finalists. In fact, the paper claims that the weaknesses are so severe that Rainbow’s security parameters now fall short of the security requirements set out by the NIST post-quantum competition.
But how does Rainbow work, and how do these weaknesses affect it? And wh...2020-12-0838 min