ZKPodcast: Cryptography 101 Multi-Party Computations

Episode 60. Originally aired on January 16 2019:

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Cryptography 101: Multi-Party Computations

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik give a general introduction to MPCs, go over a few examples of MPCs in action, compare them with other cryptographic concepts, try to pronounce "fully homomorphic encryption" properly, and more!

In this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik give a general introduction to MPCs, go over a few examples of MPCs in action, compare them with other cryptographic concepts, try to pronounce "fully homomorphic encryption" properly, and more!

Here are some of the material that we reference:

* Andrew Yao's paper on Protocols for Secure Computations -https://research.cs.wisc.edu/areas/sec/yao1982-ocr.pdf
* "How to play ANY mental game" publication - MPCs first introduced Goldreich-Micali-Wigderson (GMW) -https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234778924_How_to_play_ANY_mental_game
* Very basic intro to Shamir Secret Sharing and MPCs Video Series from a Prof at Chalmers -https://www.youtube.com/user/87bvd/videos
* First widely used MPC in Denmark -https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/068.pdf
* Multi-Party Computation: From Theory to Practice. Nigel P. Smart speaking at Google -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRAN_w1_qmw
* Rob Habermeier's Shamir Secret Sharing library -https://github.com/rphmeier/shamir_sharing
* A course by Zvika Brakerski on Fully Homomorphic Encryption -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8IvJAIvGJo

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