This short panel will explore the role of advanced programmable cryptography, beyond ZK and MPC, in d/acc. Programmable cryptographic primitives like functional encryption (FE), witness encryption (WE), and indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) have become theoretically feasible and even moving towards real-world practicality. This panel will explore how these primitives can be used to improve trust-minimized infrastructure and applications.

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CEO of Ligero Inc. and Associate Professor at Georgetown University. An expert in zero-knowledge proofs and secure multiparty computation, recipient of ICDE Influential Paper Award, CCS 2023 Distinguished Paper Award and Google Faculty Award. Muthu is a steering committee member of the ZK Standardization Effort.