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Aug 2021
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Episode 21: Proving Fundamental Equivale...

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Benjamin Wesolowski talks about his latest paper in which he mathematically proved that the two fundamental problems underlying isogeny-based cryptography are equivalent. Links and papers discussed in the show: * The supersingular isogeny path and endomorphism ring problems are equivalent (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/919) * Episode 5: Isogeny-based Cryptogr ... Show More
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