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Diving into Merkle Trees
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[tahoe-dev] Merkle-Winternitz-HORS signature scheme for Tahoe-LAFS
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| | [AI summary] An email exchange detailing a technical proposal to implement a secure Merkle-Winternitz-HORS signature scheme for the Tahoe-LAFS distributed file system, outlining improvements in signature size, security against quantum attacks, and stateless performance optimizations.
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ROT256 : Cryptography & Other Random Bits.
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| | In applications where membership of the Merkle tree must be proved inside a SNARK, the concrete cost of expressing the compression function in the proof system (in terms of gates/R1CS constraints etc.) affects performance of the prover massively. This has lead to the study/creation of so-called SNARK-friendly hash functions: hash functions with ''nice algebraic'' descriptions over (large) finite fields, enabling an efficient description of the function as an arithmetic circuit over the field on which the...
| | notes.volution.ro
The many flavors of hashing -- Volution Notes
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| | About the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.
| | words.filippo.io
A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
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| The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.