zkMesh: June 2021 recap
Welcome to zkMesh, a monthly newsletter covering 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).
We include 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
Introducing Bandersnatch: a fast elliptic curve built over the BLS12-381 scalar field by Simon Masson and Antonio Sanso
Private Signaling by Varun Madathil, Alessandra Scafuro, István András, Omer Shlomovits, and Denis Varlakov
A General Purpose Transpiler for Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Google
On Secret Sharing, Randomness, and Random-less Reductions for Secret Sharing by Divesh Aggarwal and Eldon Chung and Maciej Obremski and Joao Ribeiro
New data structure for univariate polynomial approximation and applications to root isolation, numerical multipoint evaluation, and other problems by Guillaume Moroz
Asynchronous Data Dissemination and its Applications by Sourav Das and Zhuolun Xiang and Ling Ren
Proofs of Isogeny Knowledge and Application to Post-quantum One-Time Verifiable Random Function by Antonin Leroux
Manta: a Plug and Play Private DeFi Stack by Shumo Chu and Yu Xia and Zhenfei Zhang
A New Framework for Garbled Circuits by Tomer Ashur and Efrat Cohen and Carmit Hazay and Avishay Yanai
Hyperproofs: Aggregating and Maintaining Proofs in Vector Commitments by Shravan Srinivasan and Alex Chepurnoy and Charalampos Papamanthou and Alin Tomescu and Yupeng Zhang
SoK: Gröbner Basis Algorithms for Arithmetization Oriented Ciphers by Jan Ferdinand Sauer and Alan Szepieniec
Articles
Gröbner Basis-Attacking a Tiny Sponge – AS Discrete Mathematics | asdm | Jan Ferdinand Sauer
What is ZEXE? (Part I) | Zero Knowledge Podcast blog | Anthony Matlala
Opinion: It’s time to zero knowledge all the things! | Zcash foundation | Peter Van Valkenburgh
Optimizing Pairing-Based Cryptography: Montgomery Arithmetic in Rust | nccgroup | Eric Schorn
Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for solving 'impossible' puzzles | phys.org | Richard Bean
Apple Reveals New Encryption and Privacy Features for iPhone, Mac | Decrypt | Andrew Hayward
What Is Taproot, the Privacy-Focused Bitcoin Upgrade? | Decrypt | Jeff Benson
FinCEN Wants to Discuss Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Keep Americans Safe | Decrypt | Scott Chipolina
Brave Browser's Next Trick: Privacy-Preserving News Recommendations | Coindesk | Benjamin Powers
Videos/Podcast
ZK Podcast: Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity Predicates, Ferveo DKG & More
#Zcon2Lite [All videos!]
ZKV Presents… Privacy in Cosmos [All videos!]
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Tools
Guides and Resources
What are zk-SNARKs? | Mina Protocol
Proof-of-Work vs Proof-of-Stake | Mina Protocol
Private Set Intersection from Homomorphic Encryption: A Python Implementation
Zero-Knowledge Proof of Equality between RSA Modulus and Prime Order Group
Project Updates
Volition and the Emerging Data Availability spectrum | StarkWare
Cypherpunk Guild Community Call Recap | Cypherpunk Guild
Where Applications Become Private | Aleo | Anthony DiPrinzio
On the optimization of PlonK | Fluidex
Aztec is going open source! |Aztec Network | Zac
Introducing Receiver Address Privacy for Recurring Firo Payments | Firo | Reuben Yap
Oracle and HACERA Team Up On Multi-Cloud Blockchain-Based MiPasa Data Platform To Strengthen COVID-19 Response | Hacera | Mark Rakhmilevich, Oracle, and Jonathan Levi
HashCloak Update #1 | Hashcloak | Yahsin Huang
KEaNU is a Go | Nucypher | MacLane Wilkison
Announcing the Secret Terra Bridge! - Bringing Privacy to Smart Contracts and Public Blockchains | Secret Network
Gas price claimed anonymity mining a victim but now everyone can claim AP | Tornado Cash
Tornado.Cash Deployment Proposal On Polygon | by Tornado Cash
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
ZK Jobs Fair July 25th 2021
ZK Hackathon Fall 2021 (Date TBD) - Signup to be reminded!
Plumo Setup: Phase 2 Ongoing - Signup to participate!
ZK Day Online (July Edition) by Taipei Ethereum Meetup. July 27, 2021
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
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 (EuroS&P) September 6-10, 2021
ACM Advances in Financial Technologies September 26-28 2021
Tokenomics 2021 November 18-19, 2021
Online Event: 18th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding - IMA Dec 14-15, 2021
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