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I was reading the "Intro to ProgCrypto" book by @0xPARC. To understand the examples and algos better, I translated them line-by-line to Jupyter notebooks. 

I plan to add exercises and use it as a base to learn advanced topics for each chapter.

https://github.com/flyingnobita/0xparc_intro_book_workbook

Have you considered building with TEEs in your crypto protocol? We a a16z just published a primer for you! 

TLDR: Expect them to be compromised. Use them primarily for privacy, not for integrity. Use ORAM when possible. There is a lot to build --  have fun but be wary.

Erasing women’s contributions to cryptology and our subsequent victory over Nazi Germany would be nothing short of disgusting. 

Joan Clarke’s work cracking the Enigma code saved thousands — if not millions — of lives. 

Links to download these papers available in quoted thread.

According to a former NSA Director, the National Cryptologic Museum is being forced to censor an exhibit of American Women in Cryptology by covering it in brown paper. 
https://t.co/ntj3XOLTYv https://t.co/66W9SjN4BU

Erasing women’s contributions to cryptology and our subsequent victory over Nazi Germany would be nothing short of disgusting. 

Joan Clarke’s work cracking the Enigma code saved thousands — if not millions — of lives. 

Links to download these papers available in quoted thread.
https://x.com/sweis/status/1886451440971063315?s=46&t=dO0uo_CgV6MrB7N3NkVjDA

Trusted Setup Ceremonies generate secure parameters for zero-knowledge proof systems — they’re more fun to explain using mixology.

Trusted Setup Ceremonies generate secure parameters for zero-knowledge proof systems — they’re more fun to explain using mixology.
https://mantej.blog/trusted-setup-ceremony-mixology-edition

Don’t like TEEs

They’re my PET peeve

Without the breakthrough of public key cryptography, TLS, PGP, SSH, & of course btc all would not have been possible.

The web would look totally different today.

We can thank Diffie, Hellman, & Merkle for their brilliant research in the '70s.

But wait...what about the Brits??
https://tbp.tech/asymmetric-encryption

Great thread on mpc-tls

Sometimes there are better solutions than ZK 😉😎

@vanishree_rao @worldcoin @reclaimprotocol @OpacityNetwork I’ll respond with 2 replies.

&gt; I think DECO did a lot of optimizing for the garbled circuit to stay under the limits but all that only for 3pc. 

So anyone reading has clarity, handshake is 3-party, but the mpc is 2 party. Only thing server knows thats its slower than usual.…

Great thread on mpc-tls

Sometimes there are better solutions than ZK 😉😎

https://x.com/euler__lagrange/status/1875046837708554434?s=46

If you're an applied cryptographer in your early 20s, buy this

Go into debt if you have to

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/Polymath.pdf

interesting system https://github.com/mratsim/constantine

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15042

Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized

Fresh drop from australian NSA:

“taking into account projected technological advances in quantum computing”

- DH / ECDH / ECDSA will not be approved for use beyond 2030
- Also AES-128 and AES-192
- Also SHA-256 (!)
- Also ML-KEM-768 / ML-DSA-65 (!!)

https://www.cyber.gov.au/resources-business-and-government/essential-cyber-security/ism/cyber-security-guidelines/guidelines-cryptography

"ECDSA will not be approved post 2030" 🤨

"ECDSA will not be approved post 2030" 🤨 

https://warpcast.com/paulm/0x2a5f0cfd

Why aren't the EDDSA curves NIST approved?