Paraphernalia

This is some of the stuff I (plan to) read and think others could find useful.

Blogroll

• Oded Goldreich’s essays
• cr.yp.to
• David Wong’s Cryptologie
• Dcentralized thoughts

Cryptography and (zero-knowledge) proof systems

• Cryptography 101, Alfred Menezes
• A course in cryptography, Rafael Pass and abhi shelat toread
• The RareSkills Book of Zero Knowledge, RareSkills toread
• PLONK notes (wave 1), ret2basic.eth toread
• A brief history of lookup arguments, Tomer Solberg, Ingonyama, 2023

Group theory

• Elliptic curve attacks – from small subgroup attack to invalid curve attack, ret2basic.eth

Math

• Winograd Fast Inner Product, Remco Bloemen
• The tensor product demystified, Math3ma
• A course in discrete structures, Rafael Pass and Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng toread

Others

• Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better, gwern.net
• Bullsh*t jobs, Matthew B. Crawford
• Courage and Honour: Against Timidity (Or, How to Love), Marilyn Simon
• Do artifacts have politics?, Langdon Winner

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