Ian Miers @secparam

CS Prof. Security and applied cryptography. University of Maryland. I do cryptography and cryptocurrency work in Washington DC. cs.umd.edu/~imiers/ Washington DC/ UMD Joined April 2012

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Ian Miers @secparam

3 days ago

Why isn't there a stable coin dashboard. Not of tvl , but of adoption outside of crypto. Folks holding it because it's more stable than their country's banking, etc. The data is all public to analyze, even if the analysis is at best heuristic at worst just noise.

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Ian Miers @secparam

4 days ago

Chernobyl radioactive waste RNG. I forgot about this. @ebfull @rel_zeta_tech and I wrote Powers of Tau to let anyone participate in zk setup ceremonies, originally for zcash, but variants are now everywhere. It got some fun participants, including a radioactive RNG on a plane.

John 🛡 @Tripleyouwu

4 days ago

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Ian Miers @secparam

4 days ago

I went on the zk podcast to discuss my new work on anonymous reputation (zk-promises) and my 2022 zk-creds paper, which laid out a path for zk-identity where most projects are still on step one. We ended up on the history of zk+blockchains, starting where it all began: Zcash

Zero Knowledge Podcast @zeroknowledgefm

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Ian Miers @secparam

4 days ago

A friend mentioned cyber "letters of marque" in a chat—letting companies hack back and attack their attackers. It's a commonly proposed solution. Currently, only governments typically have the authority to attack. Even for them, is it an effective defense(beyond deterrence) ?

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Ian Miers @secparam

6 days ago

A lot of cryptography is just about drawing smooth lines through random dots you put on the XY plane ....and somehow stuffing them into envelopes you feed to the entropy gnome.

David Wong @cryptodavidw

6 days ago

A lot of cryptography is just about drawing smooth lines through random dots you put on the XY plane ....and somehow stuffing them into envelopes you feed to the entropy gnome.

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Ian Miers @secparam

a week ago

The worst part of preparing a tenure portfolio is realizing you actually have to create that 'permanent record' your elementary school teachers threatened you with. And it has pesky formatting requirements.

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Ian Miers @secparam

a week ago

@QuangVDao So the thing is , I get what your saying. Everyone says awesome things about Jolt. I say awesome things about Jolt(for what little my opinion is worth). So why, in a very well capitalized industry, is there's only one team doing Jolt-like things?

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Ian Miers @secparam

a week ago

Amidst all the ZKVM trash talk, what's the real state of play for each approach? An interesting idea emerged from chatting with a colleague: Maybe Jolt's major challenge is it's too clever? Pushing so many tricks to the IOP level makes development incredibly difficult to scale.

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Carsten Baum @crypto_carsten

a week ago

@secparam Rumor has it that the main point is showing strength towards the US administration by forcing US big tech to give in to EU demands. It's about power. That's a very stupid thing to do, but it's what actually motivates the relevant decision makers. I do not say I agree with this

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Peter Van Valkenburgh @valkenburgh

a week ago

New Coin Center report on digital identity by myself & Ian Miers: AML/KYC is ineffective, costly, causes breaches/hacks, and jeopardizes our democracy. Tech from crypto can protect American values in ID. We call for a new initiative, the John Hancock Project, to show the way.