Introduction

Cryptography is transitioning from a means to communicate in the presence of adversaries to a tool for co-operation between adversarial parties, unlocking new possibilities in how we can collaborate without compromising privacy.

ETH Oxford will award $10k + fast tracked HomeDAO applications to the team / individual our judges determine have produced the most differentiated programmable cryptography project.

FHE

Fully Homomorphic Encryption protocols allow you to run an algorithm on encrypted data and get the same result as you would have done if the data was unencrypted.

Overview;

• https://www.jeremykun.com/2024/05/04/fhe-overview/
• https://www.jeremykun.com/fhe-in-production/
• https://www.bigbrain.holdings/post/fhe/

Tech Stack + Further Resources;

• https://github.com/jonaschn/awesome-he

MPC

Multi-party computation allows multiple parties to compute a function over their combined inputs while keeping those inputs private from each other.

Overview;

• https://securecomputation.org/
• https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/300.pdf
• https://mpc.cs.berkeley.edu/

Tech Stack + Further Resources;

• https://github.com/rdragos/awesome-mpc

Other

Explore the following for an overview of the programmable cryptography movement, and examples of other protocols we would like to see projects built around.

• https://0xparc.org/blog/programmable-cryptography-1
• https://gestalt.cafe/trust-infrastructure/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGLPnpD--Y