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devcon 7 / programmable cryptography and dacc

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Programmable Cryptography and d/acc

Duration: 00:20:23

Speaker: Muthu Venkitasubramaniam, Wei Dai

Type: Lightning Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2024

This short panel will explore the role of advanced programmable cryptography, beyond ZK and MPC, in d/acc. Programmable cryptographic primitives like functional encryption (FE), witness encryption (WE), and indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) have become theoretically feasible and even moving towards real-world practicality. This panel will explore how these primitives can be used to improve trust-minimized infrastructure and applications.

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