Episode 119: Alistair and Jeff from Web3 on ZKPs & more

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Alistair Stewart and Jeff Burges, researchers at the Web3 Foundation (https://web3.foundation/), to dig into what they are working on, what they are thinking about at the moment, and how zero knowledge proofs can be used throughout the Polkadot ecosystem.
Here are some links and ressources to check out:
* Gavin Wood episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/46)
* Rob Habermeier episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/83)
* The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf)
* Daniel Bernstein on Twitter (https://twitter.com/hashbreaker)
* Isogenies VDF (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/166.pdf)
* Axolotl Ratchet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm)
Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits (https://trailofbits.com)
Check out the blog post describing how Manticore could have discovered the ENS bug here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/03/03/manticore-discovers-the-ens-bug/
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In this week’s episode, we sit down with Alistair Stewart and Jeff Burges, researchers at the Web3 Foundation, to dig into what they are working on, what they are thinking about at the moment, and how zero knowledge proofs can be used throughout the Polkadot ecosystem.

Here are some links and ressources to check out:

Gavin Wood episode
Rob Habermeier episode
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Daniel Bernstein on Twitter
Isogenies VDF
Axolotl Ratchet

Thank you to this week's sponsor Trail of Bits

Check out the blog post describing how Manticore could have discovered the ENS bug here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/03/03/manticore-discovers-the-ens-bug/

Thanks again Trail of Bits.

If you like what we do:

Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm

Join us on Telegram

Support our Gitcoin Grant

Support us on the ZKPatreon

Or directly here:

ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a

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ZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ