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Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions with Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev

Zero Knowledge · Jun 26, 2024 · 1:10:47

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In this week’s episode Anna and Nico chat with Alessandro Chiesa, Associate Professor at EPFL and Eylon Yogev, Professor at Bar-Ilan University. They discuss their recent publication; Building Cryptographic Proofs from Hash Functions, which provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of cryptographic proofs and goes on to analyze notable constructions of SNARGs based on ideal hash functions.

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