Cryptographic Games

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This project is part of the liveProject series Learn Privacy-Enhancing Techniques with Cryptographic Games
prerequisites
intermediate Rust · basic IntelliJ IDEA Rust plugin
skills learned
define relevant data structures (specifically structs and enums) · build a simple application that interacts with the command line · use the standard library to build logic and tests for the application
Omer Shlomovits
1 week · 6-8 hours per week · BEGINNER
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In this liveProject, your challenge is to plan a festive Secret Santa gift exchange for your co-workers, keeping their identities private. The catch is: They’re all working remotely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily, you’re no stranger to providing innovative solutions to “impossible” problems. You’ll implement MPC as you program in Rust, which is well-suited for cryptography applications thanks to its guaranteed memory safety. When you’re done, you’ll have developed a private mix method and randomly assigned each “gifter” exactly one “giftee” while keeping the identity of the “Santa” a secret!

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project author

Omer Shlomovits
Omer Shlomovits (omershlomovits.com) is the co-founder and VP Research of ZenGo (founded 2018), a Tel-Aviv based company building products for consumers in the blockchain space. He runs ZenGo X, a 500+ members research community. He is a member of OpenMined MPC team, applying secure computation to machine learning. He codes mostly in Rust\Go and is passionate about imagining, designing, implementing and attacking complex crypto-systems. His research is aimed to tackle real world, hard problems, using novel cryptography. His focus is on threshold cryptography. In 2019 he co-founded MPC-Alliance, a consortium of 50+ companies collaborating to advance MPC technology. Currently he serve as a board-member and head of the technical committee. He co-founded Zero-Knowledge TLV, a 750+ members applied cryptography community in Israel. This is now part of ZK-Global.

prerequisites

This liveProject is for beginner Rust developers. To begin these liveProjects you will need to be familiar with the following:

TOOLS
  • Intermediate Rust
  • Basic IntelliJ IDEA Rust plugin
TECHNIQUES
  • Basic algorithms
  • Elliptic curve cryptography
  • Encryption and decryption
  • Hashing
  • PRNGs

you will learn

In this liveProject, you’ll learn to implement MPC, one of several Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs).

  • Define relevant data structures (specifically structs and enums)
  • Build a simple application that interacts with the command line
  • Use the standard library to build logic and tests for the application

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