zkMesh: July 2022 recap
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zkMesh: July 2022 recap
Welcome to zkMesh, a monthly newsletter covering the latest in decentralized privacy-enhancing technologies, privacy protocol development, and zero knowledge systems research.
zkMesh is produced by the Zero Knowledge Podcast & ZK Hack.
It includes links to 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
Ferveo: Threshold Decryption for Mempool Privacy in BFT networks by Joseph Bebel, Dev Ojha
Piranha: A GPU Platform for Secure Computation by Jean-Luc Watson, Sameer Wagh, Raluca Ada Popa
Scooby: Improved Multi-Party Homomorphic Secret Sharing Based on FHE by Ilaria Chillotti, Emmanuela Orsini, Peter Scholl, Nigel Paul Smart, Barry Van Leeuwen
Distributed Shor’s algorithm by Ligang Xiao, Daowen Qiu, Le Luo, Paulo Mateus
Scalable and Transparent Proofs over All Large Fields, via Elliptic Curves by Eli Ben-Sasson, Dan Carmon, Swastik Kopparty, David Levit
Nirvana: Instant and Anonymous Payment-Guarantees by Akash Madhusudan, Mahdi Sedaghat, Philipp Jovanovic, Bart Preneel
zk-creds: Flexible Anonymous Credentials from zkSNARKs and Existing Identity Infrastructure by Michael Rosenberg, Jacob White, Christina Garman, Ian Miers
Quantum Rewinding for Many-Round Protocols by Russell W. F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Max Planck, Nicholas Spooner
OpenFHE: Open-Source Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library by Ahmad Al Badawi, Jack Bates, Flavio Bergamaschi, David Bruce Cousins,Saroja Erabelli, Nicholas Genise, Shai Halevi, Hamish Hunt, Andrey Kim, Yongwoo Lee, Zeyu Liu, Daniele Micciancio, Ian Quah, Yuriy Polyakov, Saraswathy R.V., Kurt Rohloff, Jonathan Saylor, Dmitriy Suponitsky, Matthew Triplett, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Vincent Zucca
Zero-Knowledge in EasyCrypt by Denis Firsov, Dominique Unruh
Lattice-Based SNARKs: Publicly Verifiable, Preprocessing, and Recursively Composable by Martin R. Albrecht, Valerio Cini, Russell W. F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Max Planck, Sri AravindaKrishnan Thyagarajan
Caulk+: Table-independent lookup arguments by Jim Posen, Assimakis A. Kattis
PEReDI: Privacy-Enhanced, Regulated and Distributed Central Bank Digital Currencies by Aggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss, Amirreza Sarencheh
An efficient key recovery attack on SIDH (preliminary version) by Wouter Castryck, Thomas Decru
Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value I: Constant Function Market Makers by Kshitij Kulkarni, Theo Diamandis, Tarun Chitra
Fast Modular Multiplication by Yuval Domb
Articles
Mental Poker in the Age of SNARKs - Part 1 | Geometry Blog
Aztec Launches DeFi Privacy Bridge Aztec Connect | Coindesk | Brandy Betz
Aleo to test Virtual Machine ahead of mainnet launch | The Block | Vishal Chawla
Field selection for recursive SNARKs | Delendum | Gautam Botrel
Breaking supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman (SIDH) | ellipticnews
ZK in Identity | Delendum | Shashank Agrawal
Edward Snowden on the Long Road to Internet Privacy | Coindesk |
Ethereum’s Rollup Race: What is a ‘True’ zkEVM? | Coindesk | Sam Kessler, Sage D. Young
Fast Modular Multiplication | Ingonyama | Yuval Domb
NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms | NIST.gov
Videos/Podcast
zkStudyClub: Caulk - Lookup Arguments in Sublinear Time (Arantxa Zapico) | ZeroKnowledge Podcast
Ep 237 - Exploring ZK Research with Jens Groth | ZeroKnowledge Podcast
ZK Whiteboard Sessions by ZK Hack and Polygon
ZK in a TweetShell
Guides and Resources
Tools
GitHub - emp-toolkit/emp-zk: Efficient and Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs
GitHub - lucasgleba/zkRiscV: A Risc-V CPU implemented as a zk-SNARK
GitHub - pornin/crrl: Rust library for cryptographic research
Project Updates
Mina Ecosystem Updates – July 2022 | Mina Blog
Dark Forest Dev Update - Summer Break | Dark Forest Blog
Understanding the Rust starter Project | RISC Zero Blog
Announcing the Scroll pre-alpha testnet | Scroll Blog
ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2021 | Electric Coin Co. Blog
Transparency Report — Q2 2022 | Mina Blog
Triple Masking with Turbo-Plonks on Forge testnet | Findora Blog
Semaphore V2 is live! | Privacy & Scaling Explorations Blog
Introducing the Concrete Framework | Zama Blog
Privacy on Moonbeam - Events Series | zkValidator Blog
Semaphore V2 is Live! | Privacy & Scaling Explorations
100 Days to Mainnet | Matter Labs
Aztec Network Launches First Ever Private DeFi Solution for Ethereum | Aztec team
Nightmarket [Guest Post] | 0xparc blog | 0xSage and xyz_pierre
Gateways to privacy | Nym
Oasis Labs Partners with Meta to Assess Fairness for its AI Models using Cutting-edge Privacy Technologies | The Oasis Lab Team
Regenesis: StarkNet’s No-Sweat State Reset | StarkWare blog
Part 1: StarkNet Sovereignty: A Decentralization Proposal | StarkWareblog
Tornado Cash Classic UI is now Open Source | Tornado Cash
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
ZCon 3 | Las Vegas. August 7 - 9
Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium | Bristol, UK. August 8 - 12
10 Applications of ZKP | Virtual. Aug 12
Science of Cyber Security | Matsue city, Japan. August 10 - 12
Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology | Virtual. August 13
The Science of Blockchain Conference | Stanford, CA. August 29 - 31
QCrypt | Taipei, Taiwan. August 28 - September 2
Dappcon | Berlin. September 12 - 14
zkSummit 8 | Berlin. September 15.
CHES 2022 Registration | Leuven, Belgium, September 18 - 21
Devcon | Bogotá, Columbia. October 11 - 14
ETHLisbon | Lisbon. October 28 - 30
ETHSF '22 | San Francisco. November 3 - 5
Theory of Cryptography Conference | Chicago. November 7 - 10
International Conference on Smart Contracts and Blockchain | Dubai. November 10 - 11
Istanbul Blockchain Week | Istanbul. November 15 - 16
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