Cryptographer and designer @ Cursive, working on cryptography for human connection

Vivek Bhupatiraju

Recent MPC research from Cursive and PSE enables a new concept called "digital pheromones": the ability to produce lightweight, privacy-preserving signals that people can use to coordinate safely and efficiently.

The primary result we will cover is Trinity, a new 2PC scheme with nearly ideal UX/DevX, built on the trio of PLONK, Garbled Circuits, and KZG Witness Encryption. We will do a live demo with attendees and explore what a future filled with digital pheromones will enable!

Classroom A

Digital pheromones: MPC for human connection & coordination

Cryptography is an inherently defensive tool; it hides your information from adversaries. This is crucial to prevent censorship or monitoring of your data. But it's often sold to consumers with fearmongering about all-powerful malicious actors, which is often ignored by all except the privacy-conscious. We explore real-life examples of offensive cryptographic affordances like interoperability, efficiency, and user consent as stronger motivations for the masses to migrate to cypherpunk tech.