Episode 200: SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa

Zero Knowledge

200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna chats with Alessandro Chiesa, a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security and one of the co-founders Zcash and StarkWare. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro
• Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction
• Summer school - Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs (virtual)
• Paper - Barriers for Succinct Arguments in the Random Oracle Model by Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev
• Paper - Proof Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments
• Paper - A Zero Knowledge Sumcheck and its Applications
• Paper - Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More
• Subquadratic SNARGs in the Random Oracle Model
• Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments: Breaking the Quantum Rewinding Barrier
• Paper - DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System
• Paper - Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS
• Alessandro Chiesa's website

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