Zcash’s Anna and Deirdre on Zebra and quantum-resistant cryptography

Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 8 a.m.

In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation (https://www.zfnd.org/) on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies (https://parity.io) and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called. Highlights 00:28 - How Anna and Deirdre got to the Zcash Foundation 02:08 - Why have multiple Zcash clients? 06:54 - The state of Zebra now and future plans. 11:38 - Build-test-deploy benchmark pipeline 20:53 - Blossom features 22:03 - Integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives 33:33 - Quantum security Links Zebra repo (https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra) Parity’s Zebra release announcement (https://www.parity.io/parity-releases-zebra-in-collaboration-with-zcash-foundation/)Deirdre Connolly on Twitter (https://twitter.com/durumcrustulum)Anna Kaplan on Twitter (https://twitter.com/kaplannie)Zcash Rocket Chat (https://chat.zcashcommunity.com) Zcash Community dev room (https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/zcash-dev)Zcash Wizards chat (https://chat.zcashcommunity.com/channel/zcash-wizards) Subscribe and follow us at @relaychain (https://twitter.com/relaychain) to stay tuned for more episodes. Special Guests: Anna Kaplan and Deirdre Connolly.