Zero Knowledge

In this week’s episode, we chat with Ben Fisch, Stanford PhD student working in Dan Boneh's applied cryptography group. In our conversation, we dig into accumulators, Merkle trees & vector commitments. We also learn a bit about the RSA Accumulator Paper - entitled Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains - that he co-authored with Benedikt Bünz and touch on some of the ways these RSA accumulators could potentially be used in a blockchain context. Here are a few previous episodes that might help you prep for this interview: Merkle Trees https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/57 MPCs https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/60 Here are a few concepts and links we mention: Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) https://github.com/cambrian/accumulator https://medium.com/@chia.net/chia-vdf-competition-guide-5382e1f4bd39 Thank you to our sponsor this week StarkWare Star