Frameworks for Programmable Privacy with Ying Tong and Bryan Gillespie

Summary In this week’s episode, https://x.com/AnnaRRose (Anna) and https://x.com/GuilleAngeris (Guille) chat with https://x.com/therealyingtong (Ying Tong Lai) from https://geometry.dev/ (Geometry Research) and https://x.com/bryan_gillespie (Bryan Gillespie) from https://inversed.tech/ (Inversed Tech) about their latest research and works to date. They dive into the pair’s recent work ‘https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/982 (SoK: Programmable Privacy in Distributed Systems)’, exploring the classifications and frameworks being introduced. Here’s some additional links for this episode: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/982 (SoK: Programmable Privacy in Distributed Systems by Benarroch, Gillespie, Lai and Miller) https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/48016 (Private Programmability in Zcash - Research Results and Community Discussion) https://github.com/zcash/halo2 (Zcash Halo2 GitHub) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4cIkCY2EA (Zk0x02 - An intro to Zcash and zkSNARKs - Ariel Gabizon (Zcash)) https://medium.com/@arielgabizon/moving-snarks-from-the-generic-to-algebraic-group-model-56549d60b90d (Moving SNARKs from the generic to algebraic group model by Ariel Gabizon) https://electriccoin.co/blog/snark-explain/ (Explaining SNARKs Part I: Homomorphic Hidings by Ariel Gabizon) https://fc22.ifca.ai/preproceedings/30.pdf (Differential Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers by Chitra, Angeris and Evans) https://angeris.github.io/papers/cfmm-privacy.pdf (A Note on Privacy in Constant Function Market Makers by Angeris, Evans and Chitra) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.05638 (On Privacy Notions in Anonymous Communication by Kuhn, Beck, Schiffner, Jorswieck, and Strufe) ZK Hack Montreal has been announced for Aug 9 - 11! Apply to join the hackathon https://zk-hack-montreal.devfolio.co/ (here). Episode Sponsors http://aleo.org/ (Aleo) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. As Aleo is gearing up for their mainnet launch in Q1, this is an invitation to be part of a transformational ZK journey. Dive deeper and discover more about Aleo at http://aleo.org/ (http://aleo.org/). If you like what we do: Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge (@ZeroKnowledge | Linktree) Subscribe to our podcast https://zeroknowledge.substack.com (newsletter) Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram (Telegram) Catch us on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g (www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g))