Zero Knowledge
Where we talk about zero knowledge research and the decentralised web
We found 3 episodes of Zero Knowledge with the tag “trusted setup”.
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Episode 137: Trusted Setup Bonus: Tornado Cash
July 8th, 2020 | 29 mins 2 secs
blockchain, learning group, powers of tau, privacy, snarks, technology, trusted setup, zero knowledge
In this week's episode, Anna follows up on the trusted setup survey she did in her previous episode on the topic with this bonus interview with Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash's trusted setup, held in May 2020, was the largest to date with over 1000 participants.
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Episode 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored
June 10th, 2020 | 1 hr 14 mins
aztec protocol, ethereum, power of tau, semaphore, snark, tornado cash, trusted setup, zcash, zksnark
In this week's episode, Anna explores the recent trusted setups for SNARK systems. She interviews Koh Wei Jie from the Ethereum Foundation, Thomas Walton-Pocock from Aztec Protocol, Brecht Devos from Loopring and Kobi Gurkan from the EF and cLabs. This episode covers the new generation of trusted setups and how these teams are learning from each other and at times, even sharing parts of the trusted set up itself.
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Episode 123: Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from ECC
April 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 8 mins
ecc, electric coin company, halo, recursive snarks, trusted setup, zcash, zero knowledge
In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from the Electric Coin Company (ECC) to chat about Halo, a recursive proof composition that doesn't require a trusted setup. We cover the efficiency techniques used in Halo such as "nested amortization", how the protocol was developed, what some of the key findings are, and how it fits in with the other recent SNARK-based protocols.