{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F72498a11-c931-450a-b5c9-3639479fcc90","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=\"Accumulators with Ben Fisch\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/72498a11-c931-450a-b5c9-3639479fcc90\"></iframe>","title":"Accumulators with Ben Fisch","description":"In this week\u2019s episode, we chat with Ben Fisch, Stanford PhD student working in Dan Boneh&#39;s applied cryptography group. In our conversation, we dig into accumulators, Merkle trees and vector commitments. \r\n\n\nWe also learn a bit about the RSA Accumulator Paper - entitled https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188.pdf (Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains) - that he co-authored with Benedikt B\u00fcnz and touch on some of the ways these RSA accumulators could potentially be used in a blockchain context. \r\n\n\nHere are a few previous episodes that might help you prep for this interview: \r\n\nMerkle Trees https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/57 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/57)\r\n\nMPCs https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/60 (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/60)\r\n\n\nHere are a few concepts and links we mention: \r\n\n\n\nhttps://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1188.pdf (Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains)\r\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem))\r\n\nhttps://github.com/cambrian/accumulator (https://github.com/cambrian/accumulator)\r\n\nhttps://medium.com/@chia.net/chia-vdf-competition-guide-5382e1f4bd39 (https://medium.com/@chia.net/chia-vdf-competition-guide-5382e1f4bd39)\r\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you to our sponsor this week https://starkware.co (StarkWare) \r\n\n\nStarkWare will be presenting the https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/ (StarkWare Sessions) - on Sept 16th in Tel Aviv. The event will bring together some of the brightest minds in zero knowledge research from both the academic and application spheres. Topics that will be discussed are self-custodial trading, STARKs for Layer 1, STARK-friendly hash functions and other cool things you can do with STARK proofs.\r\n\n\nUse the code Zkpodcast for 20% off the tickets - &gt; https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/ (https://starkware.co/starkware-sessions/)\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/defe42f6-3b4a-4735-9c10-c8abccfd4b1a/cover.jpg"}