In the last few years, when you talk about like the linear PCP to the regular PCP, do we use any other terms for that today? Yeah, we don't have practical snarks today from PCPs, but rather kind of a mix of interactive proofs and PCPs that people call IOPs. And then this vSQL paper came out, John Kachupeng Zhang, Babis and some others, that kind of had the key insight. This was before, you know, Kate KZG commitments already existed,. People didn't really appreciate this notion of a polynomial commitment scheme yet. That's how from then on, my, I started studying polyn
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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