Episode 329 - Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions with Alessandro Chiesa & Eylon Yogev

Episode 329. Aired on June 26, 2024 See full episode on zeroknowledge.fm/329-2/ In this week’s episode Anna (x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico (x.com/nico_mnbl) chat with Alessandro Chiesa (ic-people.epfl.ch/~achiesa/), Associate Professor at EPFL and Eylon Yogev (eylonyogev.com/), Professor at Bar-Ilan University. They discuss their recent publication; Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions (snargsbook.org/), which provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of cryptographic proofs and goes on to analyze notable constructions of SNARGs based on ideal hash functions. --------------- Here’s some additional links for this episode: 00:05 * Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions by Chiesa and Yogev (snargsbook.org/) 00:05 * Episode 200: SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa (zeroknowledge.fm/episode-200-snark-research-pedago…) 11:58 * Barriers for Succinct Arguments in the Random Oracle Model by Chiesa and Eylon Yogev (eprint.iacr.org/2020/1427.pdf) 14:55 * STIR: Reed–Solomon Proximity Testing with Fewer Queries by Arnon, Chiesa, Fenzi and Eylon Yogev (eprint.iacr.org/2024/390.pdf) 14:55 * ZK Podcast Episode 321: STIR with Gal Arnon & Giacomo Fenzi (zeroknowledge.fm/321-2/) 19:59 * Computationally Sound Proofs by Micali (people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/Selected%20Scientific%…) 19:59 * Tight Security Bounds for Micali’s SNARGs by Chiesa and Yogev (eprint.iacr.org/2021/188.pdf) 42:52 * Interactive Oracle Proofs by Ben-Sasson, Chiesa, and Spooner (eprint.iacr.org/2016/116.pdf) 55:28 * Summer School on Probabilistic Proofs: Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs in Zürich, Switzerland (www.slmath.org/summer-schools/1037) 57:58 * Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge by Thaler (people.cs.georgetown.edu/jthaler/ProofsArgsAndZK.p…) 58:40 * ZK HACK Discord and Justin Thaler Study Club (discord.gg/Nw7PKJ7e) 58:40 * Justin Thaler Study Club by ZK HACK on YouTube (   • ZK HACK - Thaler Book Study Group  ) * Subquadratic SNARGs in the Random Oracle Model by Chiesa and Yogev (eprint.iacr.org/2021/281.pdf) * ZK Learning Course (zk-learning.org/) --------------- ZK Hack Montreal has been announced for Aug 9 - 11! Apply to join the hackathon here (zk-hack-montreal.devfolio.co/). --------------- Launching soon, Namada (namada.net/) is a proof-of-stake L1 blockchain focused on multichain, asset-agnostic privacy, via a unified shielded set. Namada is natively interoperable with fast-finality chains via IBC, and with Ethereum using a trust-minimized bridge. Follow Namada on Twitter @namada (twitter.com/namada) for more information and join the community on Discord (discord.gg/namada). --------------- Aleo (aleo.org/) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at (aleo.org/). --------------- *If you like what we do:* * Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree (linktr.ee/zeroknowledge) * Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (zeroknowledge.substack.com/) * Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm (twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) * Join us on Telegram (zeroknowledge.fm/telegram) * Catch us on YouTube (   / @zeroknowledgefm  ) ---------------

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