Episode 250: What's the Deal with Hash Functions? - a podcast by Fredrik Harrysson, Anna Rose

In this week’s episode, Anna (https://twitter.com/annarrose) and Kobi Gurkan (https://twitter.com/kobigurk) speak with Dmitry Khovratovich (https://twitter.com/khovr), researcher at the Ethereum Foundation (http://ethereum.foundation/), Dusk Network (https://dusk.network), and ABDK Consulting (https://www.abdk.consulting) and JP Aumasson (https://twitter.com/veorq) CSO at Taurus (https://www.taurushq.com/). This episode compares symmetric and asymmetric cryptography as well as a deep dive into hash functions. They explore what hash functions are used for, the process of developing and improving hash functions, and what it means for a hash function to be zk friendly.
Here are some additional links for this episode:Dmitry Khovratovich Twitter (https://twitter.com/khovr)
Ethereum Foundation (http://ethereum.foundation/)Dusk Network (https://dusk.network/)
ABDK Consulting (https://www.abdk.consulting/)JP Aumasson Twitter (https://twitter.com/veorq)
JP Aumasson Website (https://www.aumasson.jp/)Taurus Twitter (https://twitter.com/taurus_hq)
Taurus Website (https://www.taurushq.com/)ZK8: New Directions in ZK hashing - Dmitry Khovratovich - Ethereum Foundation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnb7T9YATs)ZK8: On ZK hashes - JP Aumasson - Taurus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4fzHpd4dk)
ZK7: Security of ZKP projects: same but different - JP Aumasson - Taurus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9pbCKNB28)Serious Cryptography - JP Aumasson, 2017 (https://nostarch.com/seriouscrypto)
Too Much Crypto - JP Aumasson, 2019 (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf)Crypto Dictionary - JP Aumasson (https://twitter.com/cryptolexicon)
Scalable, transparent, and post-quantum secure computational integrity - Ben-Sasson, Bentov, Horesh, Riabzev, 2018, page 71 (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/046.pdf)NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (https://www.nist.gov)
BLAKE2 (https://www.blake2.net)Poseidon Network (https://www.poseidon.network)
SHA-3 (https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions/sha-3-project)Reinforced Concrete - Maharramov, 2021 (https://dusk.network/news/reinforced-concrete-paper-release)
Nova - Recursive Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Folding Schemes - Kothapalli, Setty, Tzialla, 2021 (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/370)ZK8: Fantastic Beasts: unfolding ZK hardware - Omer Shlomovits - Ingonyama (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q0BAO18Hu0&feature=youtu.be)
Find the Aleo repo here github.com/aleohq (https://github.com/aleohq).Today's episode is sponsored by Anoma.
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