Summary

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. They discuss the focus of his research today, covering new ZK research problems and themes. This includes work on lattice-based SNARKs, ZK for content provenance, ZK in the FHE context, updates on ZK in ML and more!

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

Episode 256: New ZK Use Cases with Dan Boneh
Episode 100: Dan Boneh on the past, present & future of cryptography
Episode 341: coSNARKs with Ais and Lukas from TACEO
LaBRADOR: Compact Proofs for R1CS from Module-SIS? Ward Beullens and Gregor Seiler
Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More by Bünz, Bootle, Boneh, Poelstra, Wuille, and Maxwell
Greyhound: Fast Polynomial Commitments from Lattices by Nguyen and Seiler
LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Applications to Succinct Proof Systems Dan Boneh and Binyi Chen
Protostar: Generic Efficient Accumulation/Folding for Special-sound Protocols by Bünz and Chen
BaseFold: Efficient Field-Agnostic Polynomial Commitment Schemes from Foldable Codes by Zeilberger, Chen and Fisch
Blaze: Fast SNARKs from Interleaved RAA Codes by Brehm, Chen, Fisch, Resch, Rothblum and Zeilberger
Episode 277: Nova and Beyond with Srinath Setty
Verifiable FHE via Lattice-based SNARKs by Atapoor, Baghery, Pereira and Spiessens
ARC: Accumulation for Reed–Solomon Codes by Bünz, Mishra, Nguyen and Wang
VerITAS: Verifying Image Transformations at Scale by Datta, Chen and Boneh
ZK Whiteboard Sessions - Module One: What is a SNARK? by Dan Boneh

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Gathering Treasures in Heaven