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Episode 250: What's the Deal with Hash Functions?
Zero Knowledge
The Trade-Off of Optimizing for Cryptocurrency
The performance of a prover is really really difficult to quantify here so when we for example from the design standpoint it's actually very difficult because on one hand you want to design a hash function that could be used in many applications with many proof systems. That's the trade-off of optimization as soon as you optimize for something the new optima for one use case and not for the others but yet flop. There's also the topic of let's say quantum resistance that maybe some hash functions at least are plausibly should stand further against, he says.
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