In this week’s episode, Anna and co-host Kobi Gurkan chat with Mary Maller, a ZK Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They cover Mary’s journey into cryptography, her work on trusted setups, universal SNARKs and Plookup tables. They also discuss the work she and Kobi did on aggregatable DKGs, what working on research at the EF is like and more.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Caulk: Lookup Arguments in Sublinear Time
• Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation
• Reaching Consensus For Asynchronous Distributed Key Generation
• Updatable and Universal Common Reference Strings with Applications to zk-SNARKs
• Marlin: Preprocessing zkSNARKs with Universal and Updatable SRS
• SNARKBlock: Federated Anonymous Blocklisting from Hidden Common Input Aggregate Proofs
• SnarkPack: Practical SNARK Aggregation
• R1Cs
• ZK Hack Puzzles
• Ep 133: Trusted Setup Ceremonies Explored
• Ep 93: Light clients & ZKPs with Celo
• Bonus ZK Hack Wrap with Kobi!
• Mary's Github: mmaller - GitHub

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