zkMesh: April 2021 recap
Welcome to zkMesh, a monthly newsletter about the latest in decentralised privacy-preserving technologies, privacy protocol development and zero knowledge systems research. zkMesh is put together by Mikerah (HashCloak) and Anna (Zero Knowledge Podcast, zkSummit).
It includes links to the latest research, useful articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, tools, project updates and events. Expect a new edition at the beginning of every month and be sure to share and subscribe!
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Research
HoneyBadgerSwap: Making MPC as a Sidechain by Yunqi Li, Sylvain Bellemare, Mikerah Quintyne-Collins and Andrew Miller
A Formal Analysis of the MimbleWimble Cryptocurrency Protocol by Adrián Silveira, Gustavo Betarte, Maximiliano Cristiá and Carlos Luna
Some recent papers in isogeny crypto | ellipticnews
Formal security analysis of MPC-in-the-head zero-knowledge protocols by Nikolaj Sidorenco, Sabine Oechsner and Bas Spitters
Non-Interactive Anonymous Router by Elaine Shi and Ke Wu
MPC-Over-Signal by Omer Shlomovits
zkHawk: Practical Private Smart Contracts from MPC-based Hawk by Aritra Banerjee, Michael Clear and Hitesh Tewari
SNARKpack: Practical SNARK Aggregation by Nicolas Gailly, Mary Maller and Anca Nitulescu
(Weak) Simulation-Extractability of Universal zkSNARKs by Markulf Kohlweiss and Michał Zając
Interactive Physical ZKP for Connectivity: Applications to Nurikabe and Hitori by Leo Robert, Daiki Miyahara, Pascal Lafourcade and Takaaki Mizuk
Secure Computation by Secret Sharing Using Input Encrypted with Random Number (Full Paper) by Keiichi Iwamura and Ahmad Akmal Aminuddin Mohd Kamal
Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge from Sub-exponential DDH by Abhishek Jain and Zhengzhong Jin
On Simulation-Extractability of Universal zkSNARKs by Markulf Kohlweiss and Michał Zając
Private Liquidity Matching using MPC by Shahla Atapoor, Nigel P. Smart and Younes Talibi Alaoui
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 - all papers (with some summary videos)
Articles
The Soundness of MuSig — Joinmarket.me archive | Adam Gibson
Consensus 2021: The Ongoing Fight for Privacy | Coindesk | Adam Gibson
A Digital Euro Must Protect Privacy, ECB Public Survey Reveals | Coindesk | Tanzeel Akhtar
Privacy Chat App Signal Rolls Out Cryptocurrency Payments | Decrypt | Will Gottsegen
Zero knowledge proof-based blockchain network Mina goes live | The Block | Yogita Khatri
Videos/Podcast
MPC over Signal from ZenGo
Scaling ETHGlobal: StarkWare 🛠 Peeking into Cairo
Scaling ETHGlobal: zkSync 🛠 Building with zkSync SDK
Scaling ETHGlobal: Loopring 🛠 Connecting to Loopring Bridge
Scaling ETHGlobal: zkSync — zkPorter: Why Rollups Are Not Enough - Alex Gluchowski
Scaling ETHGlobal: Scaling via Zero Knowledge Day
Zero Knowledge Episode 175: zkEVM & zkPorter with Matter Labs
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Tools
Vulnerabilities
AUDIT OF ING’S THRESHOLD ECDSA LIBRARY – AND A DANGEROUS VULNERABILITY IN EXISTING GENNARO-GOLDFEDER’18 IMPLEMENTATIONS by Tommaso Gagliardoni
Guides and Resources
What are Zero Knowledge Proofs? A simple 3-minute guide | Decrypt | Matt Hussey
Privacy Coins and zk-SNARKs: How Do They Work? | Decrypt | Scott Chipolina
Project Updates
Where Applications Become Private | Aleo | Howard Wu
zkPorter: a breakthrough in L2 scaling | Matter Labs
Anoma Blog - Demystifying Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation | Anoma | George Gkitsas
Layer Cake: A guide to Layer 2s. Hello 👋 | Aztec Network | Zac
Accelerating Firo's privacy research | Firo | Reuben Yap
Lelantus reactivated on Firo | Firo | Reuben Yap
Horizen Publishes The Latus Incentive Scheme For SNARK-based Sidechains | Horizen
Value bridged versus value locked | Keep Network
KEANU So Far. An update on the hard merge process | Keep Network
Mysterium and Storj Labs Link the Decentralised Web Together
Caspian, an L2-Powered AMM. A DeFi-friendly L2 AMM | StarkWare
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
Next ZK Jobs Fair. May 19 2021 Sign up here to be reminded
Vienna CyberSecurity and Privacy Research Center Lecture Series Ongoing
Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Practice - Series of Short Workshops Ongoing
Crypto/Applied crypto seminar is an informal series at CMU Ongoing
PKC 2021: International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography May 10-13 2021 (Virtual)
CFAIL The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology. August 14, 2021.
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 (EuroS&P) September 6-10, 2021
ACM Advances in Financial Technologies September 26-28 2021
Jobs:
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