zkMesh: Aug 2020 Recap
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Research
SPARKs: Succinct Parallelizable Arguments of Knowledge by Naomi Ephraim, Cody Freitag, Ilan Komargodski and Rafael Pass
Bootstrapping fully homomorphic encryption over the integers in less than one second by Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira
Decentralized Custody Scheme with Game-Theoretic Security by Zhaohua Chen and Guang Yang
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Circular Security by Romain Gay and Rafael Pass
Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions by Aayush Jain, Huijia Lin, and Amit Sahai
A Study on Privacy-Preserving GRU Inference Framework by Shou-Ching Hsiao, Zi-Yuan Liu and Raylin Tso
Big Subset and Small Superset Obfuscation by Steven D. Galbraith and Trey Li
Polynomial IOPs for Linear Algebra Relations by Alan Szepieniec
Factoring and Pairings are not Necessary for iO: Circular-Secure LWE Suffices by Zvika Brakerski, Nico Döttling, Sanjam Garg and Giulio Malavolta
Why you can’t build a private uniswap with ZKPs by Barry WhiteHat
Articles
What is a Cryptographic Hash Function? by Alin Tomescu
Why Privacy Needs Composition by Thomas Steinke and Jonathan Ullman
Major quantum computational breakthrough is shaking up physics and math
Zero-Knowledge Proofs from Information-Theoretic Proof Systems - Part I by ZKProof.org
The Definitive Guide to Bitcoin Privacy & Surveillance — Privacy techniques built for Bitcoin: a deep dive analysis by The Block
Meet Pickles SNARK: Enabling Smart Contracts on Coda Protocol
zkSNARKS and Cryptographic Accumulators on Coinbase blog
Attacks and Vulnerabilities:
A Statement on two discovered vulnerabilities in Wasabi Wallet
Attacking Threshold Wallets by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Omer Shlomovits
Videos/Podcast:
Aleo with Howard Wu on Zero Knowledge Podcast
ZK & Games: Dark Forest with Brian Gu on Zero Knowledge Podcast
Foundations of Probabilistic Proofs with Alessandro Chiesa
Daniel Wang, Loopring 3.6 - Features and Challenges at Edcon
Introduction to zkSync at Edcon
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Tools
Guides and Resources
https://suyash67.github.io/homepage/project/2020/07/03/bulletproofs_plus_part3.html
https://research.metastate.dev/a-gentle-introduction-to-dependent-types/
https://blog.hermez.io/zero-knowledge-proofing-hermez-a-quick-guide-to-our-cryptographic-setup/
Project Announcements / Updates
Dark Forest Game introduced
Aleo introduced
Meet Pickles SNARK: Enabling Smart Contracts on Coda Protocol
Hello, Cairo! from Starkware
Nucypher’s WorkLock: A Call to Action by Tux
Trusted Setup Complete! by Filecoin
Trade Finance: A new asset class coming to DeFi via Tinlake by Centrifuge
Events/Hackathons
ZK-TLV At Home 0x0e - Dark Forest - A Decentralized Strategy Game with zkSNARKs Sept 8
OpenMined Privacy Conference Sept 26-27
NIST Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes (MPTS 2020) Nov 4-6
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