We are very happy to have Eli Ben-Sasson speak to us. Eli is professor (http://eli.net.technion.ac.il/) at Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Zerocash (http://zerocash-project.org/) co-inventor, and ZCash (https://z.cash/) co-founder and scientist. His abstract is as follows:



"The enhanced privacy and fungibility of Zcash relies on cutting-edge cryptography --- zero knowledge proofs and zkSNARKs. This talk describes recent progress towards, and applications of, transparent zero knowledge proofs, whose setup requires only a public random string."



This work, combined with further work on the part of cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum will hopefully result in fully private and fungible currencies which do not require the same trusted setup that ZCash required.



This talk is co-sponsored with the Santa Clara Valley chapter (http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/its/) of the IEEE Information Theory Society.



Food will be sponsored by Jae Kwon and Cosmos (https://cosmos.network/).