├── MerkleTreeResources.md └── Readme.md /MerkleTreeResources.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Here are some of the resources from episode 57 - Merklize this! 2 | 3 | * [Wikipedia definition of a Merkle Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree) 4 | * [Dan Finlay's talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SMliFtoPn8) 5 | * [Merkle Trees explained](https://media.consensys.net/ever-wonder-how-merkle-trees-work-c2f8b7100ed3) 6 | * [Wikipedia definition of a Radix Tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree) 7 | * [Merkling in Ethereum](https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/11/15/merkling-in-ethereum/) 8 | * [Ethereum Modified Merkle Patricia Trie system](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YZGxe.png) 9 | * [Sparse Merkle Trees](https://medium.com/@kelvinfichter/whats-a-sparse-merkle-tree-acda70aeb837) 10 | * [Blockchain at Berkeley: Merkle trees and Patricia Tries](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwrf87bq6jo) 11 | * [Modified Merkle Patricia Trie: How Ethereum saves a state](https://medium.com/codechain/modified-merkle-patricia-trie-how-ethereum-saves-a-state-e6d7555078dd) 12 | * [Modified Merkle Patricia Trie Specification](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Patricia-Tree) 13 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /Readme.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Hey! 2 | 3 | Here is a spot where we can add some introductory ZK resources: 4 | * Book: The Codebook, Simon Singh 5 | * Paper: [Micali, Goldwasser, Rackoff](https://people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/Selected%20Scientific%20Papers/Proof%20Systems/The_Knowledge_Complexity_Of_Interactive_Proof_Systems.pdf) 6 | * [A New Approach To Protecting Secrets Is Discovered](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/17/science/a-new-approach-to-protecting-secrets-is-discovered.html) - The New York Times, February 17th, 1987 7 | * [Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer](https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer/) 8 | * [Where's Waldo example](http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/waldo.pdf) 9 | * [Str4d presenting the Billiard Balls example at ZK0x01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9YgRDJAFEE&t=12s) 10 | * [Sudoku ZKP example](http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/SUDOKU_DEMO/) 11 | 12 | 13 | Here are further resources on 14 | [SNARKs](https://github.com/ZeroKnowledgefm/zkSNARKs) & 15 | [STARKs](https://github.com/ZeroKnowledgefm/STARKs) 16 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------