Many of the specs are either academic papers or just the code. With fry based marks in particular, how secure they are is not necessarily hard coded into the code. So that means you might have to go like on chain to actually just see what is the security level. I kind of thought there it should be well known what these smart contracts are doing and like how secure are they? And it seemed basically just to not be.
This week, Anna chats with Justin Thaler, Associate Professor at Georgetown. They cover Justin’s academic history and discuss what led him to working on interactive proofs and SNARKs. They also take a look at several other topics such as the Thaler Book Study Group, his earlier work Spartan, comparing the security of different rollups built with SNARKs and STARKs and more.
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