tl;dr: Digital signatures are one of the most important cryptographic primitives today. They are used to establish HTTPS connections with your favorite website, to securely download software updates, to provably send emails to others, to sign legal electronic documents, or to transact on a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.| Alin Tomescu
I suspect that many of you see no real connection between social, political, and ethical values and what you work on. You don’t build bombs, experiment on p...| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: Confidential assets are in town! But first, a moment of silence for veiled coins.| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: An NP relation $R(\mathbf{x}; \mathbf{w})$ is a formalization of an algorithm $R$ that verifies a solution $\mathbf{w}$ to a problem $\mathbf{x}$ (in ...| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: Groth16 is one of the most popular general-purpose zkSNARK schemes.Although Groth16 is slower to prove than more recent zkSNARKs, it has the smallest ...| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: For now, just including my tweet, which I keep having to look up to show to people.| Alin Tomescu
tl;dr: Dan, Kamilla, Alin, Rex and Trisha came up with a blazing-fast batched ZK range proof for KZG-like committed vectors of values.| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: Hyrax is polynomial commitment scheme (PCS) with (1) sublinear commitment-and-proof sizes and (2) sublinear opening-and-verification times.Hyrax is co...| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: Forget univariate. Forget FFTs. Multilinear polynomials are the bomb!$\def\bin{\{0,1\}}\def\eq{\mathsf{eq}}\def\SC{\mathsf{SumCheck}}\def\MLE#1{\maths...| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: KZG + Hyrax = KZH[^KZHB25e]. This name makes me happy: not only it stands on its own but it also coincides with the first three authors’ initials!| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: Motorcycles are drugs. Alin might buy a motorcycle and risk the few, still-functioning limbs in his body. Someone should convince him not to do this. Update (July 2020): Alin purchased a 2017 Honda Rebel 500. He has never been more happy and frightened at the same time. Even after taking basic, intermediate and advanced riding clinics, he remains terrified. This is probably for the best. Wish him luck. Update (October 2021 and March 2022): Since July 2020, Alin continues to have all hi...| Alin Tomescu
tl;dr: A quick note on the most commonly-occuring variant of $\Sigma$-protocols, inspired from the Boneh-Shoup textbook!| Alin Tomescu
tl;dr: What a beautiful construction!| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: A zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) system for an NP relation $R$ allows a prover, who has a statement $\mathbf{x}$ and a witness $\mathbf{w}$ to convince a ...| alinush.github.io
tl;dr: My current sense: circom is still in its early days.First, it lacks an ability to write correctness tests natively in its own language (as opposed to ...| alinush.github.io