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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.

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    Gröbner basis on numb3rs

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    It doesn’t seem to be the only appearance of the Gröbner basis on the show:

    In the Season 4 opening episode ‘Trust Metric’ (2007) of the television crime drama NUMB3RS, math genius Charlie Eppes mentions that he used Gröbner bases in an attempt to derive an equation describing friendship.

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