David Wong

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Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity, research advisor at Archetype, and author of the Real-World Cryptography book. 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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How does PLONK work? Part 4: From programs to arithmetic circuits

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In this fourth video, I explain the “arithmetization” of our program into so-called arithmetic circuits. You can see this as “encoding” programs into math, so that we can use cryptography on them.

Part 5 is here. Check the full series here.

suggested reads:
→ How does PLONK work? Part 5: From arithmetic circuits to constraint systems • blog
→ How does PLONK work? Part 2: An overview • blog
→ How does PLONK work? Part 1: What's PLONK? • blog
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