Episode 96: Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas

Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 1 p.m.

In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Eli Ben Sasson (https://twitter.com/EliBenSasson) to talk about the latest from StarkWare (https://twitter.com/StarkWareLtd), the explosion of new research within the zero knowledge space and the origin of new mathematical ideas. Recorded right after the StarkWare Sessions in tel aviv, and during a period of incredible development in new cryptographic zk techniques and protocol proposals. Here are some of the papers and ideas we cover: * STARK-friendly hash competition (https://starkware.co/hash-challenge/) * Succinct Arguments in the Quantum Random Oracle Model (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/834.pdf) * More resources about StarkWare and STARK technology (https://starkware.co/resources/) * Henri Pointcaré - Science and Hypothesis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmmgWcbAmjo) The chapter mentioned is "On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning" As mentioned in the intro, the Zero Knowledge Summit (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/summit) is happening on Oct 26th in San Francisco If you are a dev, researcher or founder working on these topics and want to attend, please submit your application here: https://forms.gle/bZvaywbvCe2dnBkD7 Here (https://medium.com/zeroknowledge/zero-knowledge-summit-zk0x03-a9bb755a421c) are some impressions from the last one! If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA Support our Gitcoin Grant - https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a BTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz