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Accumulators with Ben Fisch


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In this week’s episode, we chat with Ben Fisch, Stanford PhD student working in Dan Boneh's applied cryptography group. In our conversation, we dig into accumulators, Merkle trees & vector commitments.

We also learn a bit about the RSA Accumulator Paper - entitled Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains - that he co-authored with Benedikt Bünz and touch on some of the ways these RSA accumulators could potentially be used in a blockchain context.


Here are a few previous episodes that might help you prep for this interview:


Merkle Trees https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/57


MPCs https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/60

Here are a few concepts and links we mention:

  • Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
  • https://github.com/cambrian/accumulator
  • https://medium.com/@chia.net/chia-vdf-competition-guide-5382e1f4bd39

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