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“Enjoy the small things.” Good reminder.
Hossein Hafezi
@RandomString00
PhD @ University of Cambridge, previously at NYU
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Kinda reflects the state of the job market everywhere:
350 applicants for a PhD position in theoretical physics. It grows every time. Not just in Leuven, but everywhere.View quoted post on X
1) We present the first truly private, single-server zkSNARK delegation scheme for well-known group-based zkSNARKs such as Groth16, Plonk, and Nova. Our core idea is to delegate the prover’s most expensive computation—namely, the MSM—to a single server.
(1) In this paper, we provide a unified framework for lookup table arguments, considering some overlooked aspects such as projectiveness and different modes of compatibility with proof systems.
The long-standing challenge of making key transparency both self-auditable and practical has been solved! IronDict scales to billions of users, making it suitable for platforms like iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal.
Check out our new paper: IronDict — Transparent Dictionaries from Polynomial Commitments
🔑 1B entries audited in 35ms with an 8KB proof
📉 300× faster auditer, 150,000× smaller proofs than @WhatsApp's AKD
📄 eprint.iacr.org/2025/1580
💻 github.com/alireza-shirza…View quoted post on X
