Episode 96: Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas

Zero Knowledge

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Eli Ben Sasson to talk about the latest from StarkWare, the explosion of new research within the zero knowledge space and the origin of new mathematical ideas.

Recorded right after the StarkWare Sessions in tel aviv, and during a period of incredible development in new cryptographic zk techniques and protocol proposals.

Here are some of the papers and ideas we cover:

• STARK-friendly hash competition
• Succinct Arguments in the Quantum Random Oracle Model
• More resources about StarkWare and STARK technology
• Henri Pointcaré - Science and Hypothesis The chapter mentioned is "On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning"

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Here are some impressions from the last one!

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