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Ian Miers

@secparam

CS Prof. Security and applied cryptography. Wrote the first papers on zk proofs and SNARKs for blockchains. Founding scientist of Aleo, Bolt Labs, and Zcash.

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linkhttps://www.cs.umd.edu/~imiers/ calendar_today05-04-2012 05:34:56

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Remember, your regulatory panel on cryptocurrency might be under Chatham house rules, but your transactions on a blockchain aren't.

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To whoever is writing a Usenix Security paper attacking the IACR's voting scheme, good luck with your submission in 58 hours.
Also, stop spamming me.

To whoever is writing a Usenix Security paper attacking the IACR's voting scheme, good luck with your submission in 58 hours. Also, stop spamming me.
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Yesterday: I feel like a real scientist, I get to play with a 3 petaflop cluster.
Today: fuck, I'm a real scientist , my experiments are slow, the file system is thrashed, and I don't know why.

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Apparently I listed my bio on an infosec slack as
' prof@ UMD. I do crypto for messaging and zksnarks for blockchains and blockchain accessories'

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I just found out: slack lets you set a 90 day retention policy on free tiers now. After 90 days, you don't have access to the messages anyway (unless you pay slack), but slack keeps them. Which is a major security liability if slack is hacked. 90 day retention avoids this.

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henry ๐ŸŒ˜(@hdevalence) 's Twitter Profile Photo

congratulations, your infrastructure that produces non-repudiable attestations as a side effect just found new product-market fit :)

twitter.com/gakonst/statusโ€ฆ

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Byzantine inputs strike again. Ordinarily you'd expect using GPS to correct inertial navigation system drift would give better results. But if the GPS is deliberately bad, not so much.

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Updating. FHE is MPC with 9,000% of the compute on an untrusted server and less bandwidth. But the interesting application are the same, as are the trust requirements.

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Pratyush Mishra(@zkproofs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun project idea for a bored student trying to get into zk: implement a parallel MSM that leverages tokio instead of rayon for parallelism.

(use this as a starting point: github.com/arkworks-rs/alโ€ฆ)

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