About this Episode

In this episode, Joe talks to Deirdre Connolly and Anna Kaplan from Zcash Foundation on the state of the Rust Zcash client, “Zebra,” originally developed by Parity Technologies and now maintained by Zcash Foundation. They also discuss integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives, quantum-resistant cryptography, and what baby zebras are called.

Highlights

00:28 - How Anna and Deirdre got to the Zcash Foundation

02:08 - Why have multiple Zcash clients?

06:54 - The state of Zebra now and future plans.

11:38 - Build-test-deploy benchmark pipeline

20:53 - Blossom features

22:03 - Integrating cryptography into our day-to-day lives

33:33 - Quantum security

Links

Zebra repo

Parity’s Zebra release announcement

Deirdre Connolly on Twitter

Anna Kaplan on Twitter

Zcash Rocket Chat

Zcash Community dev room

Zcash Wizards chat



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