Zero Knowledge

In this week’s episode, Anna Rose is joined by Nigel Smart, Professor at KU Leuven and Chief Academic Officer at Zama to discuss the advancements in MPC over recent years. Nigel unpacks core components of MPC systems, including garbled circuits, secret sharing, and FHE. They discuss both systems-level applications like DKGs and Threshold Signature Schemes and actual real-world deployments. Throughout the episode, they also discuss how MPC and ZK differ, but how they can be used together to enhance each other's capabilities.Here’s some additional links for this episode:17 misconceptions about SNARKs (and why they hold us back by Justin ThalerNigel Smart’s GitHub Unbound Security GitHub Unbound Security Twitter MPC Alliance What is a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet? Relevant ZK Podcast epsTrusted Setups & FHEEpisode 76: Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups & Elliptic Curve Cryptography Episode 124: Exploring FHE with Flavio Bergamaschi from IBM Research Episode 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored