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JJGreat video, thanks! I think someone else on RV posted this link, but I found it to be one of the clearest explanations on elliptical curve cryptography.. for a non-mathematician, and he goes into Monero as well - https://youtu.be/aC9Uu5BUxII
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INNever thought that on a medium such as RV we would be having this type of discussion, let alone an interview. This speaks to the diversity and to the "renaissance man" character of RV viewers. Much love! I know Ash was searching, for a while, the technicalities of how EC over FFs work. Lots of notions are obviously skipped here, but there are some things not mentioned that if one understands, the content is easier to digest. As an example, the modular arithmetic, which is necessary for having well-defined operations (multiplicative inverse in this case) in order to have a field, relies on the notion of "congruence relations" and the resulting "equivalence classes". This generalizes the notion of "equality", in a way, and this is foreign to most non-mathematicians. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange relies on modular arithmetic as well. The DH key exchange is now done with elliptic curves instead of repeated multiplications, and it is in every browser. Prof Paar's videos, mentioned here, are cool to watch. (Data on DH parameters, large primes, and eilliptic curbe parameters are published by NSA and NIST, but cryptanalysts use those with caution.) Great stuff, and I can only hope to see more of it. Now I am going to start reading Lindell's books on what he mentioned.
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PRHere's an "Introduction to Elliptic Curves" by Christof Paar. He starts in his native German but after two minutes of nagging his students, he switches to English. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnpZXJL6QCQ] For the brave, his whole course "Introduction to Cryptography" is here [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg/featured].
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SAAsh & Yehuda, great tech talk. Awesome interview for us tech geeks. One thing I didn't see mentioned is the role of quantum computing as it relates to creating new forms of encryption, cracking legacy ciphers and the impact to cryptocurrencies in the near term. Quantum Computing As a Service could be a game changer for good and bad actors.
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RKAsh, please send some links to those youtube videos you referenced and also hoped to find.
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DDThis was Ash and RV at their finest. It was a great guest with a unique perspective. It was all very well suited to the long format interviews that make RV special. Ash --unlike so many other interviewers on television, who do more talking than the guest-- nicely kept the conversation flowing in an intelligence and unobtrusive manner.
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BGCan someone please fix CC subtitles? It seems there are subtitles from one of the daily briefings I when click on CC. Thanks.
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SVI can only tell you that I personally intend to use MPC in my business models as there is no other multi-sig model that comes even remotely close to the architectural flexibility and rigor offered. This isn't a sales pitch, this is the real deal next-gen of counterparty risk free cryptography that involves humans & machines as coexisting verifiers. People, I can't overstate how important this is.
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ypFantastic interview, a master propellerhead who knows how to articulate his craft in layman ! Love it !
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PJAsh, would you please provide more information on the author/illustration location you cited roughly midway through your interview.
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CDInterviews like this are why I subscribe to RV. I knew a small amount about the topic but Mr. Lindell teaches with the sort of simplicity and clarity which comes only from a deep understanding. This interview was as valuable as those you've done with people like Caitlin Long or Olaf Carlson-Wee. All I can say is, please do more like this.
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JGthis guy is pretty cool. I like how passionate he is. Great interview
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BSI'd love more technical vids! What about some blockchain technical series in which we take a deep dive into inside workings of biggest/most innovative DLT projects.