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Episode 38: Intro to zkSNARKs with Howard Wu

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cryptographers are looking at it from the point of view that everyone is guilty until proven innocent. So there's been a lot of efforts on the research front to develop things like Starks. These are basically succinct, transparent arguments of knowledge. They enable the exact same game to be played as before with a proven a verifier. But this time, the setup itself is very simple. You basically only have a dependency around some random coins that are and the definition around some hash function you choose. And everybody understands this notion and can use it without having to actually rely on a generation process for these structured and very large keys that are going to be passed around.

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