Zero Knowledge

SummaryIn this week’s episode, Anna and Guille catch up with Joe Bonneau, Assistant Professor at NYU and Research Partner at a16z crypto research. They discuss the research Joe has been working on since he was last on the show in 2019, including Naysayer proofs, Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes, Sealed-Bid Auctions, and other ZK-related research projects to date.Here’s some additional links for this episode:03:18 * Episode 103: Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau05:05 * Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Narayanan, Bonneau, Felten, Miller and Goldfeder 11:00 * Verifiable Delay Functions Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt Bunz, and Ben Fisch16:18 * Naysayer proofs by Seres, Glaeser and Bonneau 16:18 * Sealed-Bid Auctions31:06 * DARPA SIEVE Project 37:59 * Zombie: Middleboxes that Don’t Snoop by Zhang, DeStefano, Arun, Bonneau, Grubbs and Walfish37:59 * Zero-Knowledge Middleboxes by Grubbs, Arun, Zhang, Bonneau and Walfish51:18 * jbonneau.com 58:04 * Riggs: Decentralized Sealed-Bid Auctions by Tyagi, Arun, Fr