200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alessandro Chiesa (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/), 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 (https://zeroknowledge.fm/59-2/)
* Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction (https://zeroknowledge.fm/114-2/)
* Summer school - Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs (virtual) (https://www.msri.org/summer_schools/931)
* Paper - Barriers for Succinct Arguments in the Random Oracle Model by Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1427)
* Paper - Proof Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1618)
* Paper - A Zero Knowledge Sumcheck and its Applications (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.02086)
* Paper - Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More (https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066.pdf)
* Subquadratic SNARGs in the Random Oracle Model (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/281)
* Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments: Breaking the Quantum Rewinding Barrier (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/334)
* Paper - DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System (https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/wu)
* Paper - Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/828)
* Alessandro Chiesa's website (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/)
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