scaraven's blog

Intro This blog post takes a step into what I believe is now the interesting part of cryptography and what makes it such a fascinating subject. For this blog post, I expect readers to be able to have a fundemental grasp of Group Theory (or at least notation). [Read More]

Intro Some readers may be familiar with the term of groups, fields and modular arithmetic. If \(\forall x \in \mathbb{Z}_p: x^{p-1} \equiv 1 \mod p\) makes sense to you, then you can skip this blog and move onto the next one. [Read More]

Intro Although I complained in the last blog about qualitative explanations of zero knowledge proofs. Such explanations are not without their merits. Explaining the mathematics behind a concept is very difficult to understand when you do not understand what you are trying to build to begin with. [Read More]

Intro Since I started university, I found that the amount of time I had to dedicate to blockchain and other areas of interest has drastically decreased. [Read More]

Intro I stumbled across code4rena around mid-April 2022 after reading this amazing blog. For those readers who have not heard of code4rena, it is a decentralised, permissionless (fancy words!) platform for allowing cryptocurrency-based projects to have their code audited by experienced auditors and newbies alike with potentially large sums of... [Read More]