Talk: Bram Cohen: "New Primitives for Cryptographic Protocols"

August 2nd, 3:30pm-4:00pm
Decentralized Web Summit 2018
Hash Lounge

Speakers: Bram Cohen, Chia Network, Co-Founder & CEO

Bram Cohen will discuss Boneh-Lynn-Shacham (BLS) signatures and how they enable aggregated signatures and what the benefits of that are. Also will describe verifiable delay functions (VDFs) and explain what their important properties are and how they might be useful.