A lot of these fry based projects are still in test net as my understanding. I recently announced on Twitter that Stark X will move up from 80 bits to 96 bits of security, which I think is great. But when I saw the security level that was being used in stark where it's deployed systems, I didn't feel it was high enough. So if things are permissioned, it might be more reasonable to have a security level whereby the basically proofs can be forged. And there might be, with Stark X, maybe there's, they've moved one stage up into training wheels.
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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