zkMesh: Nov 2020 Recap
Welcome to zkMesh - a monthly newsletter about the latest in decentralised privacy-preserving technologies 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, articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, tools, project updates and events. Expect a new edition at the beginning of every month and be sure to subscribe!
Research
PayMo: Payment Channels For Monero by Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan and Giulio Malavolta and Fritz Schmidt and Dominique Schröder
A Survey of ECDSA Threshold Signing by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Adrian Hamelink and Omer Shlomovits
A note on the low order assumption in class group of an imaginary quadratic number fields by Karim Belabas and Thorsten Kleinjung and Antonio Sanso and Benjamin Wesolowski
Mac'n'Cheese: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Arithmetic Circuits with Nested Disjunctions by Carsten Baum and Alex J. Malozemoff and Marc Rosen and Peter Scholl
Public-Coin Zero-Knowledge Arguments with (almost) Minimal Time and Space Overheads by Alexander R. Block and Justin Holmgren and Alon Rosen and Ron D. Rothblum and Pratik Soni
Publicly Verifiable Zero Knowledge from (Collapsing) Blockchains by Alessandra Scafuro and Luisa Siniscalchi and Ivan Visconti
Line-Point Zero Knowledge and Its Applications by Samuel Dittmer and Yuval Ishai and Rafail Ostrovsky
More Efficient Amortization of Exact Zero-Knowledge Proofs for LWE by Jonathan Bootle and Vadim Lyubashevsky and Ngoc Khanh Nguyen and Gregor Seiler
Efficient Fully Secure Computation via Distributed Zero-Knowledge Proofs by Elette Boyle and Niv Gilboa and Yuval Ishai and Ariel Nof
Articles
Baby Sharks. Injecting small order points to threshold EdDSA by Omer Shlomovits - ZenGo
UC Non-Interactive, Proactive, Threshold ECDSA w/ Identifiable Aborts
Bitcoin privacy and tainting: CoinJoins and CoinSwaps meet Statechains
ZKSwap Design Specification By L2Lab - by ZKSwap
Authenticated Dictionaries with Cross-Incremental Proof (Dis)aggregation - Alin Tomescu
Videos/Podcast:
ZkPodcast: ZK for authentication with Nolan and Locke from NuID
zkSummit6 videos! - Releasing them this months [Note: Subscribe to the Zero Knowledge Podcast to get notified when the other videos are released]
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Tools
Guides and Resources
Schnorr Blinded Custody - Bitcoin Papers by Oleganza
An introduction to Witch from Metastate
Catalano-Fiore Vector Commitments from Alin Tomescu
BFT Protocol Forensics by Peiyao Sheng, Gerui Wang, Kartik Nayak, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath
Project Updates
Events
Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Practice - Series of Short Workshops - Newtown Gateway to Mathematics
Espero: Optimistic SNARK setups for Plumo - sign up to participate HERE
Jobs:
Zero Knowledge Podcast is looking for a part-time Event Manager. Role would be begin January 2021. Experience hosting online events and some knowledge of blockchain or zero knowledge community is a must. Get in touch with zkPodcast - hello [at] zeroknowledge.fm
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