Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Poseidon is a super elegant hash function, part 2: Even an optimized STARK arithmetization can fit into a single screenshot
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Tayyab - d/acc
@tayyab
Thanks Vitalik, now can you explain what this wizardry is?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It's a degree-5 function from a size-192 list of primes mod 2^31-1 to a size-176 list of primes mod 2^31-1, which evaluates to true only if the last eight items of the input are the Poseidon2 hash output of the first sixteen items of the input. This is useful for making hyper-optimized STARK proofs of hashes, which in turn is useful for STARKing anything blockchain-related, and potentially a (quantum-safe) replacement for verkle trees.
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Gatpo
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Yeahh
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Zakhar
@kihawi.eth
ahahha same
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six
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Qamar Typist
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Wow
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