Ying Tong

A beginner level view at what cryptography is, from signing, encryption, and hashing, to ZK, MPC, and FHE. We will answer "What do all these things mean?", "Why do they matter?", "What can you do with them?", and "How do they fit in the real world?".

Stage 3

Member of Privacy and Scaling Explorations; R&D engineer; Maker

AtHeartEngineer

An Introduction to Cryptography, new and old

In this panel, members of Cursive, ZK Email, ZKP2P, and TACEO will describe their experience building and enabling consumer applications using programmable cryptography. They will discuss how advances in ZK, MPC, and FHE enable new types of applications to be built, how to get started building cryptographic apps, tradeoffs in tooling, and the challenges and potential pitfalls while using these tools. Finally, they'll share some future ideas for cryptography-centric apps they're excited about!

Stage 6

Steward at ZK Email: https://prove.email. 

Also co-creator of ERC 7524 (PLUME Signatures) and co-creator of image provenance proofs at https://proteus.photos.

Aayush Gupta

Aisling holds degrees in math, economics, and computer science, and obtained her PhD from the ENS in Paris in 2019. She has spent the past years working extensively on threshold cryptography and confidential computing, in both trad-fi and web3. Beyond this, she also worked on scientific and technical direction, strategy, and the legal aspects of building and using privacy enhancing technologies.

Aisling Connolly

Richard

Hello! I'm Andrew. I work at Cursive, a team building cryptography-powered apps for human connection. I'm interested in exploring the new forms of communication and interaction unlocked by advanced cryptography.