In this week’s episode, we chat with Ben Fisch, Stanford PhD student working in Dan Boneh's applied cryptography group. In our conversation, we dig into accumulators, Merkle trees & vector commitments.
We also learn a bit about the RSA Accumulator Paper - entitled Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188.pdf) - that he co-authored with Benedikt Bünz and touch on some of the ways these RSA accumulators could potentially be used in a blockchain context.
Here are a few previous episodes that might help you prep for this interview:
Merkle Trees https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/57
MPCs https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/60
Here are a few concepts and links we mention:
Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188.pdf)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
https://github.com/cambrian/accumulator
https://medium.com/@chia.net/chia-vdf-competition-guide-5382e1f4bd39
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