Oskar Thoren | Briefly on zk-SNARKs Mathematical Foundations

Sat, Oct 2, 2021, 12:00 AM

Slides: https://hackmd.io/@oskarth/S1s8K7Axt#/ Speaker intro Oskar Thoren is the protocol research lead at Vac, a secure p2p messaging stack. Before that he was Head of Engineering at Status, a mobile Ethereum client. He also organizes the Papers We Love meetup in Taipei. Website: oskarth.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/oskarth Vac website: https://vac.dev/ Talk description “Briefly on zk-SNARKs Mathematical Foundations" In this talk we’ll briefly go over what zk-SNARKs are, how they work, what properties they have, and what its mathematical underpinnings are. We’ll look at things such as polynomial properties, modular arithmetic, homomorphic encryption, knowledge of exponent assumption, elliptic curve cryptography, and cryptographic pairings.