Episode 123: Halo with Sean Bowe and Daira Hopwood from ECC - a podcast by Fredrik Harrysson, Anna Rose

In this episode, we catch up with Sean Bowe (https://twitter.com/ebfull) and Daira Hopwood (https://twitter.com/feministPLT) from the Electric Coin Company (https://electriccoin.co/) to chat about Halo, a recursive proof composition that doesn't require a trusted setup. We cover the efficiency techniques used in Halo such as "nested amortization", how the protocol was developed, what some of the key findings are, and how it fits in with the other recent SNARK-based protocols.
We touch on the following material:Sean Bowe on SNARKs, Trusted Setups&Elliptic Curve Cryptography (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/76)
https://github.com/daira/tweedleHalo whitepaper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1021.pdf)
Endomorphism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endomorphism)Latest recursive SNARKitecture with Izaak Meckler from O(1)Labs (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/113)
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