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In this episode, Anna and Nico speak with Vadim Lyubashevsky, research scientist at IBM Research, about the evolving field of lattice-based cryptography and its role in zero-knowledge systems.
Vadim shares the history and mathematical foundations of lattices, and explains how they might be used to build post-quantum secure ZK proofs and SNARKs. The conversation covers the unique challenges of adapting lattice techniques to zero-knowledge, explores the tradeoffs relative to hash-based constructions, and highlights the importance of developing quantum-safe standards for the future of cryptography.
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- Episode 345: Latest ZK Research with Dan Boneh
- Episode 288: Quantum Cryptography with Or Sattath
- LaBRADOR: Compact Proofs for R1CS from Module-SIS⋆
- IBM’s post-quantum NIST published standards
- Project11
- Minkowski’s Geometry of Numbers
- LLL reduction
- Shortest vector problem
- Basic Lattice Cryptography: The concepts behind Kyber (ML-KEM) and Dilithium (ML-DSA) by Vadim Lyubashevsky
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