zkMesh: Feb 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, ZKValidator).
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!
Research
Tight Security Bounds for Micali's SNARGs by Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev
smartFHE: Privacy-Preserving Smart Contracts from Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Ravital Solomon and Ghada Almashaqbeh
Proof-Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments (UPDATED) by Benedikt Bünz and Alessandro Chiesa and William Lin and Pratyush Mishra and Nicholas Spooner
The Nym Network Whitepaper by Claudia Diaz, Harry Halpin, and Aggelos Kiayias
Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography Toward a PEC use-case suite (Draft & Public call for Feedback) by Luís T. A. N. Brandão and Angela Robinson and René Peralta
BooLigero: Improved Sublinear Zero Knowledge Proofs for Boolean Circuits by Yaron Gvili and Sarah Scheffler and Mayank Varia
The Legendre Pseudorandom Function as a Multivariate Quadratic Cryptosystem: Security and Applications by István Andras Seres, Máté Horváth , and Péter Burcsi
Efficient Number Theoretic Transform Implementation on GPU for Homomorphic Encryption by Ozgun Ozerk and Can Elgezen and Ahmet Can Mert and Erdinc Ozturk and Erkay Savas
Privacy-Preserving Feature Selection with Secure Multiparty Computation by Xiling Li and Rafael Dowsley and Martine De Cock
Federated Learning with Local Differential Privacy: Trade-offs between Privacy, Utility, and Communication by Muah Kim and Onur Gunlu and Rafael F. Schaefer
Composition with Knowledge Assumptions by Thomas Kerber and Aggelos Kiayias and Markulf Kohlweiss
Compilation of Function Representations for Secure Computing Paradigms by Karim Baghery and Cyprien Delpech de Saint Guilhem and Emmanuela Orsini and Nigel P. Smart and Titouan Tanguy
Manticore: Efficient Framework for Scalable Secure Multiparty Computation Protocols by Sergiu Carpov and Kevin Deforth and Nicolas Gama and Mariya Georgieva and Dimitar Jetchev and Jonathan Katz and Iraklis Leontiadis and M. Mohammadi and Abson Sae-Tang and Marius Vuille
Compact Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Threshold ECDSA with Trustless Setup by Tsz Hon Yuen and Handong Cui and Xiang Xie
QuickSilver: Efficient and Affordable Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Circuits and Polynomials over Any Field 1 Introduction by Kang Yang, Patrik Sarkar, Chenkai Weng and Xiao Wang.
Good-case Latency of Byzantine Broadcast: a Complete Categorization by Ittai Abraham, Kartik Nayak, Ling Ren, Zhuolun Xiang
Research Central Bank Digital Currency Privacy (Paywalled) by Mike Rogers, The Block
Articles
Zero Knowledge Games. What makes a game a “blockchain game”? | Zero Knowledge Blog | Yours Cryptographically, Thor
Stablecoins: Privacy or Panopticon? | Zero Knowledge Blog | Lucca
Serving up zero-knowledge proofs | Trail of Bits Blog | Jim Miller
When FOMO Trumps Privacy: The Clubhouse Edition | Privacy & Technology Blog | Lourdes Turrecha
What Mark Cuban Taught Us About Privacy on Ethereum | Aztec | Thomas Walton-Pocock
What does Transparency Cost You? | Aleo | Alex Pruden
What is a Merkle Tree? | Decentralised Thoughts | Alin Tomescu
Brave Browser Leak Exposed User Domain Info for Months | Coindesk | Benjamin Powers
Anti-Privacy Regulations Pose Risks for Crypto Investors, Bank of America Says | Coindesk | Zack Voell
What Happens if All Stablecoin Users Have to Be Identified? | Coindesk | JP Koning
Adventures with RSA Blind Signing | Cathie Yun
An empirical study of privacy, scalability, and latency of Nym mixnet | Ania M. Piotrowska
[bitcoin-dev] Teleport Transactions: A CoinSwap implementation for Bitcoin | Chris Belcher
Videos/Podcast
zkSessions: DeFi +Privacy ->> Videos from Aave, Mina, Aztec & more
ZKPodcast: Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh on crypto regulation
ZKPodcast: The Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush Mishra
zkStudyClub: Unifying Compiler Infrastructure for SNARKs, SMTs, & More w/ Alex Ozdemir (Stanford)
zkStudyClub: PCD without zkSNARK with Pratyush Mishra (UC Berkeley) & Benedikt Bünz (Stanford)
Finding twin smooth integers for isogeny-based cryptography - Craig Costello
The Legendre Pseudorandom Function as a Multivariate Quadratic Cryptosystem
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Tools
Guides and Resources
Project Updates
The Future of Zero Knowledge with Aleo | Aleo | Alex Pruden
Withdraw from Loopring 3.1 — the First-Ever Experiment of Shutting Down a zkRollup | Loopring Protocol | Daniel Wang
Leading Defi projects, wallets and exchanges invest to bring Solidity to zkSync | Matter Labs |
Issue #932: CoinSwap update | Marty Bent
Utreexo demo release 0.2. | MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative | Tadge Dryja
Mimblewimble CoinSwap proposal - Development and Technical Discussion | John Tromp
[Guest Post] Exploiting DF v0.5 Artifact Minting | Blaine Bublitz
Events
zkSessions #2 : Mapping the L2 Landscape. March 15 2021
Announcing Priv8, Orchid's digital privacy summit, featuring Edward Snowden. March 23 - 25 2021
The 4TH ZKPROOF workshop Home edition. April 19 - 29 2021
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
CFAIL - The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology. August 14, 2021. Call for Papers open now
Jobs:
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