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devcon 7 / security of fiat shamir transformation

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Security of Fiat-Shamir transformation

Duration: 00:26:33

Speaker: Michal Zajac

Type: Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2024

Fiat-Shamir transformation underlies virtually every SNARK used in the Ethereum ecosystem as it makes interactive proofs non-interactive. In this talk, we discuss the security issues if the transformation is used incorrectly (e.g., parallel repetition of a ZKP defined over a small field; such protocols became very popular thanks to their efficiency), provide examples, show the security loss that the transformation brings, and the concrete security of ZKP. Finally, we discuss best practices for k

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