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Cryptography Research at the Ethereum Foundation

Cryptographic foundations for Ethereum's future.

Open source research, no patents.

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Post-Quantum Ethereum

PQ advanced signatures, PQ Data Availability Sampling, PQ everything: hashes, lattices, isogenies.

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L1 zkEVM Security

Proof system security, soundness analysis, and proof size optimizations for L1 zkEVMs.

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Poseidon

Algebraic hash function design and analysis.

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L1 Privacy Features

Cryptographic protocol design: Proof Of Validator, Single-Secret Leader Election, Encrypted Mempools.

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Cryptography Engineering

Writing and maintaining software related to DAS, Lean and zkEVMs.

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Ethereum Cryptography Foundations

Security analysis of core primitives: VDFs, BLS signatures, polynomial commitments, SNARK recursion.

cryptography@ethereum.org

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