Victor Sint Nicolaas

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Over the last decades, massive amounts of energy (and money!) have been poured into creating the *fastest* proof system. However, most of the applied cryptography industry is not familiar with fast VOLE-based proofs. Learn more here: https://victorsintnicolaas.com/interactive-versus-non-interactive-proof-systems-2/

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It is fascinating that media reports about the German defense videocall leak mention "unencrypted WiFi" as likely reason. End to end encryption doesn't care about your network.

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I like papers with a good `related work` section - this gem interprets and summarizes a lot of recent work in Witness Encryption: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/264

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Does anyone recall the Porter 5 Forces model from Econ 101? We can use this model to map all of the different ways in which cryptographic tools can reduce fraud in society, check out my new article to learn more! https://victorsintnicolaas.com/how-to-use-zero-knowledge-to-coordinate-economic-entities/

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O My God - first time ever I couldn't tell if it was a game or real video footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK76q13Aqt0

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This is the coolest paper ever: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/405 We can exploit distant satellites to achieve provably delayed encryption

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Any other casters going to zkhack in Lisbon? :)

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Did a wonderful hike this weekend through German state Thüringen. Casually came across a plaque of the wealthiest entrepreneur to have *ever* lived, I had no idea! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger

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I think every intro to meditation could use an additional intro to attachment theory

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A Challenge and Public Input walk into a bar. Bartender asks: "Where's your Witness?" They reply: "Arriving through the backdoor any time now"

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The funny paper title award of the week goes to... Ramen: Souper Fast Three-Party Computation for RAM Programs

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O god, there is a new zero-knowledge in town: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04427

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Anyone here went to https://www.autonomousecologies.xyz at EthDenver? Curious to hear more about the content!

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I've tried so many things to prevent visiting addicting websites (hello discove!). Redirecting domains to localhost, using a blocking extension, using timers. Changing from linux to a macbook was the trick I needed. Introducing such high friction at every step - too busy to get distracted! (Wrote this on old laptop)

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Very neat optimization which was waiting to happen: faster/smaller range-proofs by not decomposing numbers to base 2 but other bases: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/203

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This is very interesting work: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/164 When using zero-knowledge proofs, who cares about constant-time verification and proof size? Increase those in return for a faster prover can be great in many scenarios

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"If we act interesting, passionate, and opinionated in public, we are likely to seem to claim high status for ourselves, and to touch on sacred subjects, either by word or deed." https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/why-is-everyone-so-boringhtml

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This is a great and hilarious pair of blogs, 7 ways to build a $100 million business, it gave me a lot of intuition about deal-size: http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-build-100-million-business.html http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/11/three-more-ways-to-build-100-million.html

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I was recommended this history of Galois theory recently, it's great fun but also the author doesn't shy away from sharing esoteric middle age equations a few pages in: https://www.amazon.com/Galois-Theory-Graduate-Texts-Mathematics/dp/038790980X

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A famous math genius who dies at 20 in a duel and we still don't have a movie about him? https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-movie-about-%C3%89variste-Galois-If-not-why-not

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