Programmable Cryptography Use Cases

Exploring the current and future cryptographic landscape


The Meaning of Proofs : 

We are at the beginning of a new era in cryptography, the ability to create programmable cryptography and to prove so many new things. I'm excited about it because it's really going to enable a world of IoT and a world of decentralized AI. enabling people to make money from their personal data, remote devices to collaborate on data creation , remote computers to power open-source AI models, and many other apps. 


First-generation cryptography: encryption, security, and privacy: apps like communication protocols, encryption in messaging apps.

Programmable cryptography : 

  • Proofs for any function 

  • Verification of any claim 

  • Cryptography compilers 


Proofs of Computation and Data Use Cases

*Bolded = Programmable Cryptography

Indistinguise obfuscation - what unites it all: 

All this enables you to encrypt a program.

  1. zk snarks - Turn math problems into programmable tasks. One of the use cases is membership proofs and programmable membership - I own this and did that and that. I have this data when run through this model gives that output .only allows proof about a private statement that a single person knows.

  2. Collaborative zk snarks - mpc2.0- Multiplayer private state - Perform joined computation over secret distributed over multiple people—a game where my secret item is relevant to your secret item.

  3. FHE -  allows to perform computation on an encrypted data 

  4. Witness encryption statements with programs ( sudoku puzzle ) and not with keys - only someone who can solve this puzzle has the key to open this.

Programmable Cryptography Use Cases  

  1. Request for Data on the Internet  - bank(social score), social network(identity - the ability to access data in a p2p way - protocols for that are: zk snarks, private information retrieval - some use cases of that in crypto are zk bridges - proofs of balance on one to another blockchain, zk login ( proofs of google login in a blockchain )

  2. Future Use Cases: decentralized inference for ai, decentralized data sharing protocols,  a way to prove a computation on a depin machine or robot, faster provers of identity.


evolution in Infrastructure  


evolution in Apps 

The Evolution of Programmable Cryptography: 

  1. Building the library for your app - zk cash 

  2. Circuit languages - like circom - a layer for developers to write circuits 

  3. Program to circuit compiler - ezkl python notebook - enabling to write in python and a tool chain to convert it to cryptography 

  4. Zkvm, recursion, composition - cryptography abstract away from the developers. 

Current Stage:

We have the tools for programmable cryptography and are just starting to understand their implication. 

One of the use cases I'm curious about is how to enable any device to prove a computation that can be used for Depin and AI and bring so much valuable data to the world.

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