zkMesh: Nov 2021 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 put together by Mikerah & Yahsin from HashCloak, Mariana and Anna from Zero Knowledge Podcast & ZKValidator.
We share 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!
** On Dec 2nd, join us at the virtual ZK Jobs Fair & ZK Hack Party - a great place to find your next job opportunity and connect with the larger ZK community **
Research
On Cryptocurrency Wallet Design by Ittay Eyal
The ~~EC~~FFT algorithm (without elliptic curve and isogenies!) by Asanso
Experimental relativistic zero-knowledge proofs by Pouriya Alikhani, Nicolas Brunner, Claude Crépeau, Sébastien Designolle, Raphaël Houlmann, Weixu Shi, Hugo Zbinden
Privacy-preserving Identity Management System by Jeonghyuk Lee and Jaekyung Choi and Hyunok Oh and Jihye Kim
Multivariate public key cryptography with polynomial composition by Emile Hautefeuille
Experimenting with Collaborative zk-SNARKs: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Distributed Secrets by Alex Ozdemir and Dan Boneh
Squint Hard Enough: Evaluating Perceptual Hashing with Machine Learning by Jonathan Prokos and Tushar M. Jois and Neil Fendley and Roei Schuster and Matthew Green and Eran Tromer and Yinzhi Cao
Post-Quantum Zero Knowledge, Revisited (or: How to do Quantum Rewinding Undetectably) by Alex Lombardi and Fermi Ma and Nicholas Spooner
A Proposal for Shielded Assets (ZSAs / UDAs) for DeFi on Zcash by LeCryptoMath
Information Dispersal with Provable Retrievability for Rollups by Kamilla Nazirkhanova and Joachim Neu and David Tse
Kicking-the-Bucket: Fast Privacy-Preserving Trading Using Buckets by Mariana Botelho da Gama and John Cartlidge and Antigoni Polychroniadou and Nigel P. Smart and Younes Talibi Alaoui
SuperSolver: accelerating the Delfs-Galbraith algorithm with fast subfield root detection by Maria Corte-Real Santos and Craig Costello and Jia Shi
Articles
Funding Zero Knowledge Tech with Gitcoin | Zero Knowledge Validator
Six Moonshot ZK Applications | gubsheep
Halo and more: exploring incremental verification and SNARKs without pairings | Vitalik.ca
Sizing Up Post-Quantum Signatures | Cloudflare | Bas Westerbaan
After Taproot, What's Next for Bitcoin's Future? | Coindesk | Alyssa Hertig
Proposed Legislation to Prohibit 'Private Cryptocurrencies' in India Sparks Confusion | Decrypt | Andrew Asmakov
Popular Ethereum mixer Tornado Cash is ready to integrate with Arbitrum | The Block | Yogita Khatri
Practical SNARK-based VDFs | ZKProof | Johnathan Gross
A homomorphic FPGA implementation of the Intel 4004 — Part 1 | Thomas de Cnudde
Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Private On-Chain Applications | JP Aumasson
Extending Fuzzy Message Detection to Groups | Sarah Jamie Lewis
Videos/Podcast
zkStudyClub: PLONKUP & Reinforced Concrete with Luke Pearson, Joshua Fitzgerald, Dmitry Khovratovich
TheIACR session-4: ABE, FE, Obfuscation and Non Traditional Models
a16z: Scaling Up Blockchains with Zero-Knowledge Proofs with MatterLabs and Dan Boneh
ZKPodcast Episode 206: Distilling DeFi Primitives with Guillermo, Alex and Tarun
Blockchain Privacy in a TweetShell
Vulnerabilities
Technical Advisory – Arbitrary Signature Forgery in Stark Bank ECDSA Libraries
Practical attacks against attribute-based encryption – Kudelski Security Research
Guides and Resources
HashBounties.info
Fast, Secure 2-of-2 ECDSA using DKLs18 | by Coinbase | Nov, 2021
How to Design a VM for MPC? by Mikerah
ZK Hack Puzzle Hacking Solutions: https://www.zkhack.dev/#puzzles
Tools
Project Updates
ZKOPRU on Testnet | Privacy & Scaling Explorations
Polygon Announces Polygon Miden - A STARK-Based, Ethereum-Compatible Rollup | Polygon Blog | Mihailo Bjelic
A Provisional Timeline for the Threshold Merger | Keep Network
Threshold ECDSA Signatures | Dfinity
Incentivized Testnet Announcement | Aleo | Alex Pruden
Fully Confidential Ethereum Transactions: Aztec Network’s Privacy Architecture | Aztec | Jon Wu
Infinite Privacy: New Anonymity Paradigms with Aztec Network | Aztec | Jon Wu
Firo's Future and Direction | Firo | Reuben Yap
Here's what's on the Horizen | Horizen | Toju Ometoruwa
StarkNet Alpha, Now on Mainnet!. TL;DR | Starkware
Zarcanum: A Proof-of-Stake Scheme for Confidential Transactions with Hidden Amounts | sowle and koe
Tornado.Cash Deployment Proposal On Arbitrum | Tornado Cash
The Zcash Foundation's Q3 2021 Report | Zcash Foundation Team
Security Council 2.0. | Matter Labs
Events/Hackathons/TrustedSetups
ZK Jobs Fair & ZK Hack Party Virtual. Dec 2 2021
ZK HACK Finale Virtual. Dec 7 2021
Asiacrypt 2021 Program Virtual. Dec 6-10 2021
18th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding Online. Dec 14-15 2021
Real World Crypto 2022 Amsterdam. Jan 10–12 2022
The Science of Blockchain Conference 2022 (SBC'22) Stanford. Jan 20-22
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 Virtual. March 1-5 2022
Jobs:
ZK Jobs Board - open jobs
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