I threw together these notes for this five day workshop. And then kind of just left them for a couple of years until I started teaching some classes and started, you know, built on the notes. At some point I like threw the notes online and didn't tell anyone about them because they were still kind of an embarrassing shape. Some people stumbled on them and I got some good feedback. Even so recently I did formally publish the monograph in foundations and trends in security and privacy. But I still consider the thing to be quite rough in the living documents and we'll just keep maintaining it.
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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