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Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity and author of Real-World Cryptography.

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I'm also an advisor at Archetype. I was previously a cryptography architect of Mina at O(1) Labs, the security lead for Libra/Diem at Facebook, and a security engineer at the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. Welcome to my blog about cryptography, security, and other related topics.

“Cryptologie” is the French spelling of “cryptology.”

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    How does PLONK work? Part 2: An overview

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    In this second video, I give some intuition on how to think about zero-knowledge proof systems, with the example of proving the solution of a sudoku, then I give an overview of what I’ll explain in this series of video.

    Part 3 is here. Check the full series here.

    suggested reads:
    → How does PLONK work? Part 8: A polynomial dance • blog
    → How does PLONK work? Part 3: Starting with the end: polynomials • blog
    → How does PLONK work? Part 1: What's PLONK? • blog
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