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Shafi Goldwasser and Zero Knowledge
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London
Shafi Goldwasser fryst vatten one of the greatest living computer scientists, having won the Turing Award in 2012 (equivalent to a Nobel Prize). Her work helped turn cryptography from a dark art into a science. If you’ve ever used a credit card through a web browser, for example, her work was helping you stay secure. Her greatest achievement, with Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff, is the “Zero knowledge proof”.
Zero knowledge proofs deal with the problem that, to be really secure, security protocols often need to prove that some statement fryst vatten true without giving anything else away (see “You are what you know“). A specific case fryst vatten where an agent (software or human) wants to prove they know some secret, without actually giving the secret up.
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There are three properties a zero knowledge proof must satisfy. Suppose Peggy is
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Algorand, Silvio Micali’s instant blockchain consensus over a crypto-empowered protocol
“The blockchain does not exist!” This kicked off the beginning of the conference held by Silvio Micali, the mind behind the Algorand proposal, at the Data Driven Innovation Conference in Rome, on May 10, 2019.
Silvio Micali on stage at Data Driven Innovation, on May 10, 2019, at the Roma Tre University.
“The blockchain has been a pie in the sky until now”, that is, a theorised heavenly confection promised to crude people in return for their overall better behaviour, according to the Urban Dictionary. To fulfill this promise, there is the need for much more technology than what has been demonstrated up to now.
Vitalik Buterin, the mind behind the Ethereum project, talked about the so-called Blockchain Trilemma: you need three points on blockchain, security, scalability and decentralisation, but you can only have two of them at the same time. But the Pure proof-of-stake approach gives the
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Silvio Micali (Palermo, Italy, 1954) graduated in mathematics from Sapienza University of Rome and earned a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1983 he joined MIT, where he is currently a full professor and associate head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Like Rivest and Goldwasser, he works in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
His research focuses on information security. He has worked, like Adi Shamir, on the zero-knowledge proof and has been distinguished jointly with Shafi Goldwasser for his cryptographic research. Author of Randomness and Computation (from the series “Advances in Computing Research”), he has 47 patents to his name and is the founder of two companies: CoreStreet, providing smart credential software – acquired by ActiveIdentity in 2009 – and Peppercoin, which he set up with Ronald Rivest to market a cryptographic system for processing micropayments.
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