Episode 158: Threshold Cryptography with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo

In this week’s episode, we chat with Omer Shlomovits (https://www.omershlomovits.com/) from ZenGo Wallet (https://zengo.com/) about MPC, threshold cryptography and how the research around this topic can be used in a blockchain context.
We reference the Zero Knowledge Podcast Episode 90 with Nigel Smart (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/90).
Here are some additional links to check out:
* ZenGo X (https://zengo.com/research/)
* Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers (https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-exchanges-key-flaws-hackers/) presented at Blackhat USA
* Omer’s work on Diogenes (https://medium.com/zengo/dogbyte-attack-playing-red-team-for-eth2-0-vdf-ea2b9b2152af)
* Survey of threshold ECDSA (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1390.pdf)
* MPC Alliance (https://www.mpcalliance.org)
* JugglingSwap: Scriptless Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14423)
* CryptoWills: How to Bequeath Cryptoassets (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/283.pdf)
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In this week’s episode, we chat with Omer Shlomovits from ZenGo Wallet about MPC, threshold cryptography and how the research around this topic can be used in a blockchain context.

We reference the Zero Knowledge Podcast Episode 90 with Nigel Smart.

Here are some additional links to check out:

ZenGo X
Flaws Could Have Exposed Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Hackers presented at Blackhat USA
Omer’s work on Diogenes
Survey of threshold ECDSA
MPC Alliance
JugglingSwap: Scriptless Atomic Cross-Chain Swaps
CryptoWills: How to Bequeath Cryptoassets

Thanks to this week’s sponsor Least Authority.

If you are skilled in the area of zero-knowledge protocols and other advanced cryptography for scalability and privacy enhancing tech, you should get in contact with them. They currently have an open security auditor position see more at leastauthority.com/careers

You can also find the Gitcoin grants here:

Least Authority’s Grant for the Moon Math Manual -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/543/the-moonmath-manual-to-zk-snarks

Zero Knowledge Podcast -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast

If you like what we do:

Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm

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Catch us on Youtube

Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit

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Support our Gitcoin Grant

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