arnaucube - blog https://arnaucube.com/blog arnaucube blog Notes on Labrador, a lattice-based SNARK scheme https://arnaucube.com/blog/labrador.html Overview of how the post-quantum lattice-based SNARK scheme Labrador works. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/labrador.html Tools https://arnaucube.com/blog/tools.html A non-exhaustive overview of tools I use daily. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/tools.html Notes on hash-based signatures (pdf) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucube/math/master/notes_hash-based-signatures.pdf This document contains notes on hash-based signatures (WOTS+, HORST, SPHINCS, XMSS) Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucube/math/master/notes_hash-based-signatures.pdf Human connections in the early days of AI https://arnaucube.com/blog/ai-connections.html A short note on aiccelerationism, hyperreality, and the recovery of human connections. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/ai-connections.html <span style="font-size:85%">[zkSummit12 talk]</span> Sonobe, a modular folding schemes library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FH9I8klDk [zkSummit12 talk] Sonobe, a modular folding schemes library Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FH9I8klDk Notes on ProtoGalaxy https://arnaucube.com/blog/protogalaxy.html The idea of these notes is to provide some extra intuition and explainations on ProtoGalaxy's paper. ProtoGalaxy is a folding scheme which iterates on ideas from ProtoStar paper. Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/protogalaxy.html Notes on HyperNova (pdf) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucube/math/master/notes_hypernova.pdf This document contains notes on HyperNova. Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucube/math/master/notes_hypernova.pdf IPA polynomial commitment by hand https://arnaucube.com/blog/ipa.html This post overviews the IPA polynomial commitment described in the Halo paper, first by providing an overview on the protocol, then by doing a step-by-step example with small values, following the style done in the 'Plonk by hand series' from Joshua Fitzgerald, and later by providing a Sage implementation of the protocol. Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/ipa.html Notes on FRI and STIR (pdf) https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucube/math/master/notes_fri_stir.pdf This document contains notes on FRI low degree testing and the trick to convert it to a polynomial commitment scheme. Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucube/math/master/notes_fri_stir.pdf Implementing the powers of tau contributor https://arnaucube.com/blog/powersoftau.html In the following notes we go over the ideas behind the Powers of Tau ceremony, how participants contribute and how the contributions are verified (logic & code). We focus on the Ethereum's upcoming KZG-Ceremony. Mon, 02 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/powersoftau.html bLSAG ring signatures overview https://arnaucube.com/blog/ringsig.html Notes on ring signatures Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/ringsig.html Lagrange Polynomial Interpolation and Shamir secret sharing https://arnaucube.com/blog/shamir-secret-sharing.html Overview of Langrange Polynomial interpolation and Shamir's secret sharing. Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/shamir-secret-sharing.html Batch proof in KZG Commitments https://arnaucube.com/blog/kzg-batch-proof.html The benefit of batch proof is that allows us to proof multiple points while the proof size remains constant to one G1 point. Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/kzg-batch-proof.html Notes on KZG polynomial commitments https://arnaucube.com/blog/kzg-commitments.html In the following notes I've tried to summarize the KZG Commitment scheme with the concepts that helped me to follow the reasoning. Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/kzg-commitments.html Notes on blind signatures over elliptic curves https://arnaucube.com/blog/blind-signatures-ec.html In this notes, we will cover the scheme proposed at 'New Blind Signature Schemes Based on the (Elliptic Curve) Discrete Logarithm Problem' paper by Hamid Mala & Nafiseh Nezhadansari. Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/blind-signatures-ec.html CoffeeMiner: Hacking WiFi to inject cryptocurrency miner to HTML requests https://arnaucube.com/blog/coffeeminer-hacking-wifi-cryptocurrency-miner.html The goal of this post, is to explain how can be done the attack of MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) to inject some javascript in the html pages, to force all the machines connected to a WiFi network to be mining a cryptocurrency for the attacker. Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/coffeeminer-hacking-wifi-cryptocurrency-miner.html Auto generated tweets from Markov chains https://arnaucube.com/blog/flock-botnet.html Developing a twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with text generated based on probabilities in Markov chains Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/flock-botnet.html Static blog template engine implementation in Go https://arnaucube.com/blog/blogo.html How has this blog been made? In this post we will see how to develop a minimalistic static blog template engine with Go. Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://arnaucube.com/blog/blogo.html