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Zero Knowledge

Zero Knowledge Podcast

Zero Knowledge is a podcast which goes deep into the tech that will power the emerging decentralised web and the community building this. Covering the latest in zero knowledge research and applications, the open web as well as future technologies and paradigms that promise to change the way we interact — and transact — with one another online. Zero Knowledge is hosted by Anna Rose Follow the show at @ZeroKnowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) or @AnnaRRose (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose)

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1:14:16

Episode 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored

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2020/06/10

In this week's episode, Anna explores the state of trusted setups with 4 of the people who have recently coordinated and run trusted setups for different SNARK systems. She interviews Koh Wei Jie (https://kohweijie.com/) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://twitter.com/ethereum), Thomas Walton-Pocock (https://twitter.com/trpocock) from Aztec Protocol (https://twitter.com/aztecprotocol), Brecht Devos (https://twitter.com/Brechtpd) from Loopring (https://twitter.com/loopringorg) and Kobi Gurkan

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Episode 132: Handshake Protocol with Mark Tyneway

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2020/06/03

In this episode, we chat with Mark Tyneway (https://github.com/Tynes) who is a contributor on the Handshake (https://handshake.org/) project - an experimental peer-to-peer root naming system. We learn about this decentralised, foundation-free project, the issues of DNS, how Handshake plans on fixing this, how it differs from ENS, their unique airdrop process, what an Urkel Trie is, and more. Here are a few useful links: * Handshake Whitepaper (https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt) * An

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Episode 131: Proof of Necessary Work with Akis Kattis...

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2020/05/27

In this week's episode, Anna and guest host Tarun Chitra chat with Akis Kattis, a PhD student at NYU & the co-author of Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees - a paper he co-wrote with Joseph Bonneau. They discuss the challenge of Proof of Useful Work, the unique properties that SNARKs have, such as puzzle hardness, that allow for PoNW to overcome these challenges, PoS SNARK systems, elastic block construction, and more. Here are a few of the articles we

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1:05:26

Episode 130: Exploring Tezos & their recent Sapling...

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2020/05/20

In this week's episode, Anna interviews three people from the Tezos community: Jacob Arluck (https://twitter.com/JacobArluck) (co-founders TQ (https://twitter.com/TQTezos) ), Marc Beunardeau and Marco Stronati (both from Nomadic Labs (https://twitter.com/LabosNomades)). They chat about the Tezos (https://twitter.com/tezos) origin story, the development of the PoS system, the governance of Tezos, and how they are incorporating zk proofs - and specifically Sapling from Zcash - into their system. Here

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Episode 129: IPFS 0.5 with Molly Mackinlay from...

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2020/05/13

In this episode, we chat with Molly Mackinlay, Project Lead for the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) at Protocol Labs. We talk about her journey to Protocol Labs, as well as take a deeper view into IPFS, LibP2P, Bitswap, Testground, the use cases and projects working with these tools, and the specific upgrades they have made with the recent 0.5 IPFS release. We cover: - the importance of distributed testing infra to facilitate enterprise adoption - how UX and simple tooling plays into the

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1:01:48

Episode 128: DP-3T & Contact Tracing with Kenny...

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2020/05/06

In this week's episode, Anna catches up with Kenny Paterson (https://appliedcrypto.ethz.ch/people/kenny-paterson.html), Professor of Computer Science and Lead of Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich (https://ethz.ch/en.html). The goal of the episode is to take a deeper look at DP-3T and privacy preserving contact tracing research in Europe generally. They cover his work at ETH Zurich, discuss how the DP-3T project came to be, look at risks facing contact tracing protocols generally, and discuss

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1:02:41

Episode 127: Consensus Algorithms & HotStuff with...

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2020/04/29

In this week's episode, we go deep into Consensus Algorithms and HotStuff (https://developers.libra.org/docs/crates/consensus) with Ittai Abraham (https://twitter.com/ittaia) from VMware Research (https://research.vmware.com/). We chat about the evolution of consensus algorithms, BFT, and how these early ideas have become the backbone of blockchain tech. We cover PBFT, Tendermint and Ittai's research into SBFT, HotStuff, and the improvements he has been working on since HotStuff's incorporation

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1:06:46

Episode 126: Crypto libraries, Zcash's Zebra and...

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2020/04/22

In this week's episode, we chat with Henry de Valence (https://twitter.com/hdevalence/) from the Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/). We discuss what makes for a strong crypto library, some of the work he has been doing at the ZF and he shares an update about the Zebra Zcash client. We also learn about the TCN Coalition (https://github.com/TCNCoalition/TCN), a group he is working with that aims to build and evaluate privacy-preserving contact tracing protocols - an important tool in the fight

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1:04:41

Episode 125: Mixnets and privacy technology with...

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2020/04/15

In this episode, Anna catches up with Claudia Diaz, professor at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the Chief Science Officer at Nym Technology (https://nymtech.net/) to learn about mixnets, the history of privacy technology and how there may be some opportunities for new privacy tech to emerge in this post-pandemic world. Here is the contact tracing project that Claudia highlights in the episode: Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (https://www.pepp-pt.org/) Analysis

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1:04:43

Episode 124: Exploring FHE with Flavio Bergamaschi...

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2020/04/08

In this episode, we chat with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM research about Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). FHE allows for computation on encrypted data. First developed in 2009 at IBM, this tech has long been the considered only theoretically possible. However, as we learn in the interview, there have been strides made in the last few years and we are starting to see FHE technology being used in some real world applications. In this interview, we discuss the origin of the technology, what it is,

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Episode 123: Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood...

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2020/04/01

In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe (https://twitter.com/ebfull) and Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) from the Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co/) to chat about Halo, a recursive proof composition that doesn't require a trusted setup. We cover the efficiency techniques used in Halo such as "nested amortization", how the protocol was developed, what some of the key findings are, and how it fits in with the other recent SNARK-based protocols. We touch on the

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Episode 122: ZKPs, Audits & Security with Benjamin...

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2020/03/25

In this week's episode, we chat with Benjamin Perez (https://twitter.com/blperez_) from Trail of Bits (https://blog.trailofbits.com/) about zero knowledge proof systems and security. We touch on the evolution of the crypto tech auditing business, the new challenges that emerge in zero knowledge proof systems regarding security, some of the recent bugs and vulnerabilities found in zkp systems and more! Here is our previous episode on this topic with JP of Trail of Bits

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Episode 121: Urbit with Galen Wolf-Pauly from Tlon

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2020/03/18

In this episode, we meet with Galen Wolf-Pauly (https://www.linkedin.com/in/galenwolfepauly) from the Tlon Corporation (https://tlon.io/) to discuss the project Urbit. Urbit is an encrypted peer-to-peer network comprised of a deterministic operating system (Urbit OS (https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-os/) / Arvo) and a secure, global identity layer (Urbit ID (https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-id/) / Azimuth). The Urbit contributors have created new stack, built from the ground

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Episode 120: ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin &...

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2020/03/11

In this episode, we catch up with Justin Drake (https://twitter.com/drakefjustin) and Vitalik Buterin (https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin) from the Ethereum Foundation (https://twitter.com/ethereum) to chat about how zero knowledge proof systems are being used throughout the Eth1x and Eth2.0 stacks. We look at their applications for privacy and scalability throughout layer 1, layer 1.5 and layer 2, as well as explore some other emerging applications. Here were some of the articles and ideas

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Episode 119: Alistair and Jeff from Web3 on ZKPs & more

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2020/03/04

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Alistair Stewart and Jeff Burges, researchers at the Web3 Foundation (https://web3.foundation/), to dig into what they are working on, what they are thinking about at the moment, and how zero knowledge proofs can be used throughout the Polkadot ecosystem. Here are some links and ressources to check out: * Gavin Wood episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/46) * Rob Habermeier episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/83) * The Moral Character of Cryptographic

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Episode 118: Tarun and James talk Flash Loans & more

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2020/02/26

In this week's episode, we catch up with our friends Tarun Chitra and James Prestwich at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. We chat about the Flashloan phenomenon & the recent arbitrage 'exploit'. We also catch up about the known challenges facing PoS systems, what EVM support means on other chains & more! Catch our previous episodes with Tarun and James here: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/99 https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/61 https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/34 The tweet that Anna quotes in the episode

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Episode 117: Isogenies with Luca De Feo

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2020/02/19

In this week’s episode, we take the podcast in a slightly different direction and dive into Isogenies - a topic at the cutting edge of cryptography. We look at how they are related to VDFs and randomness generation. Our guest, Luca de Feo (http://defeo.lu/), one of the co-inventor of SIDH, helps us get an understanding for what Isogenies - or morphisms of algebraic groups - really are. Here are some useful links to check out: https://sike.org/ https://isogeny.org/ https://vdfresearch.org/ Some

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Episode 116: zkSync and Redshift: Matter Labs update

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2020/02/12

In this week's episode of the podcast, we catch up with Alex Glukowski (https://twitter.com/gluk64) of Matter Labs (https://twitter.com/the_matter_labs) to hear about zkSync (https://zksync.io/#overview), the latest iteration of their zkRollup implementation built to be a scaling and privacy engine for Ethereum. We also touch on the Redshift protocol, a new transparent zkSNARK system that emerged as a result of work on this system. Here are a few links that we mention: Previous episode on Matter

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Episode 115: Cosmos, IBC and ZKPs with Chris Goes

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2020/02/05

In this week’s episode, we catch up with Christopher Goes, (https://twitter.com/cwgoes) IBC Lead at Tendermint (https://twitter.com/tendermint_team). We learn a bit more about the Cosmos Network ecosystem and his work on IBC. We then focus in on how he is thinking about zero knowledge proofs in the context of IBC like-interoperability constructions. We explore some of the ways in which zkps could be incorporated into different schemes for interoperability - including bridging, lightclient

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Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK...

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2020/01/29

This week, we explore the Fractal transparent SNARK construction with its authors Dev Ojha (https://twitter.com/valardragon) and Nick Spooner (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~spooner/) - both students of Alessandro Chiesa (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/) at UC Berkeley. We explore how Fractal works, how it improves on some of the earlier work on Sonic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTRAg6Km1os) and Marlin, how it borrows from but differentiates itself from STARKs, as well as what they

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