This chapter delves into the historical evolution of ciphers, discussing the development of the Marvelous hash construction and the creation of ciphers and inventions named after Marvel comic references. It also explores the Stark proof system and the friendly competition between Leuven and Luxembourg in developing Stark-friendly hash functions.
In this week’s episode, we catchup with Alan Szepieniec, a researchers at Nervos and co-author of the Supersonics paper & the Marvellous family of Hash Functions (which specify the Vision/Rescue cyphers). We chat about his past work in cryptography, how the Supersonics paper came to be, and dive into the new generation of hash functions emerging, including the Marvelous universe.
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