Episode 90: MPC systems with Nigel Smart

In this week's episode, we chat with Nigel Smart (https://twitter.com/SmartCryptology), Professor of Cryptology at KU Leuven (https://www.kuleuven.be/english/) and the co-founder of Unbound Tech (https://www.unboundtech.com/), about his background in cryptology, the history of MPC systems, MPC systems in the real world, and how MPC stacks up versus other related cryptography and privacy techniques.
He helps us better understand where MPC comes from, the power of this technology and shares some emerging MPC research topics that he is excited about.
Here are some of the papers or concepts mentioned in this episode:
Our MPC episode (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/60)
GarbledCircuit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbled_circuit)
Yao's Millionaire Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Millionaires_Problem)
First FHE paper (http://luca-giuzzi.unibs.it/corsi/Support/papers-cryptography/RAD78.pdf)
Spdz protocol (https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/535.pdf)
MPC in the head (http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/PUBLIC/77.pdf)
NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative (https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography)
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In this week's episode, we chat with Nigel Smart, Professor of Cryptology at KU Leuven and the co-founder of Unbound Tech, about his background in cryptology, the history of MPC systems, MPC systems in the real world, and how MPC stacks up versus other related cryptography and privacy techniques.

He helps us better understand where MPC comes from, the power of this technology and shares some emerging MPC research topics that he is excited about.

Here are some of the papers or concepts mentioned in this episode:

Our MPC episode

GarbledCircuit

Yao's Millionaire Problem

First FHE paper

Spdz protocol

MPC in the head

NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Initiative

Thank you to our sponsor this week StarkWare

StarkWare will be presenting the StarkWare Sessions - on Sept 16th in Tel Aviv. The event will bring together some of the brightest minds in zero knowledge research from both the academic and application spheres. Topics that will be discussed are self-custodial trading, STARKs for Layer 1, STARK-friendly hash functions and other cool things you can do with STARK proofs.

Use the code Zkpodcast for 20% off the tickets - https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/

If you like what we do:

Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm

Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA

Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast

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