

Return to MPC with Nigel Smart
Oct 18, 2023
Nigel Smart, Professor at KU Leuven and Chief Academic Officer at Zama, discusses advancements in MPC, including garbled circuits, secret sharing, and FHE. They explore systems-level applications like DKGs and Threshold Signature Schemes and how MPC and ZK can enhance each other's capabilities. Topics include misconceptions about SNARKs, MPC systems, and the connection between DKG and MPC. They also cover threshold signatures for preventing MEV, garbled circuits in MPC, MPC, CK, and zero knowledge snarks, NIST's interest in ZK, small attacks, advancements in optical computing, and its impact on zero knowledge.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
MPC and its Applications
03:24 • 25min
The Connection Between Distributed Key Generation (DKG) and Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC)
28:09 • 2min
Threshold Signatures and Encryption for Preventing MEV
30:12 • 9min
Garbled Circuits in Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC)
38:44 • 19min
MPC, CK, and Zero Knowledge Snarks
57:41 • 4min
NIST's Interest in ZK and Challenges in Lattice-based Zero Knowledge
01:01:52 • 2min
Small Attacks and the Current State of MPC
01:03:40 • 11min
Advancements in Optical Computing and the Impact on Zero Knowledge
01:14:56 • 3min