{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F6df9c856-257f-48bd-914d-0bcb6d274baf","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/6df9c856-257f-48bd-914d-0bcb6d274baf\"></iframe>","title":"Exploring VDFs with Joseph Bonneau","description":"In this week\u2019s episode, we sit down with http://jbonneau.com/ (Joseph Bonneau), Assistant Professor at NYU and co-author on the Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) paper. We discuss VDFs, what they are, how they were developed and what they can be used for. \r\n\n\nHere are a few links that we reference: \r\n\n\nhttps://www.zeroknowledge.fm/74 (Blockchain 101: Randomness episode with Justin Drake)\r\n\nhttps://eprint.iacr.org/2018/601.pdf (Verifiable Delay Functions by Dan Boneh, Joseph Bonneau, Benedikt B\u00fcnz, and Ben Fisch)\r\n\nhttps://vdfresearch.org/ (vdfresearch.org)\r\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game (Numbers Game)\r\n\nhttps://www.wired.com/story/a-programmer-solved-a-20-year-old-forgotten-crypto-puzzle/ (A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old, Forgotten Crypto Puzzle)\r\n\nhttp://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/ (Bitcoin Book)\r\n\n\n\n\nThank you to this week&#39;s sponsor https://trailofbits.com (Trail of Bits)\r\n\n\nTrail of bit recently released a blog post that might be interesting for our listeners who are concerned about privacy. The post is about the concept of &#39;Safe browsing&#39;. Safe browsing claims to protect users by providing them with something called k-anonymity. \r\n\n\nRecent security news suggests that the k-anonymity has failed at protecting user privacy in certain circumstances. This is the topic that Trail of Bits explores in the blog post. Find out more about how k-anonymity works and why it is insufficient here: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/ (https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/10/30/how-safe-browsing-fails-to-protect-user-privacy/)\r\n\n\n\n\nIf you like what we do: \r\n\nFollow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm)\r\n\nJoin us on https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjA (Telegram)\r\n\nSupport our https://gitcoin.co/grants/38/zero-knowledge-podcast (Gitcoin Grant)\r\n\nSupport us on the https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge (ZKPatreon)\r\n\n\nOr directly here: \r\n\nETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1a\r\n\nBTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8Zz\r\n\nZEC: t1R2bujRF3Hzte9ALHpMJvY8t5kb9ut9SpQ \r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/64c56281-4e74-4fd9-afbb-43b4b867050b/cover.jpg"}