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.
In this episode, we sit down with Howard Wu to explore zkSNARKs, the challenges in the application of this awesome technology, the new ideas emerging for how to scale them and his latest work on DIZK.
This is the 2nd in our ongoing series about Zero Knowledge technologies. To get a good sense of Zero Knowledge Proofs, please listen to our introduction to the topic in Episode 21.
Howard Wu is an early member of Blockchain at Berkeley, the co-author of Libsnark, and a managing partner of Dekrypt Capital.
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