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Alin Tomescu
Personal blog · alinush.github.iosecuritymath
Alin Tomescu's personal blog at alinush.github.io covers security and math. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post explaining Verkle Trees, which save bandwidth by replacing a secure hash with a vector commitment scheme, making the tree shorter and fatter.
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What Hacker News says?
Author of the 2019 paper introducing Verkle Trees here [1]. Super exciting to see this on the front page of Hacker News! As the post explains very nicely, Verkle Trees basically let you save space (typically bandwidth, which can be expensive) by replacing a secure hash with a vector commitment scheme, making the tree shorter and fatter with some branching factor $k > 2$. This saved bandwidth comes at the cost of som…
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on “Verkle Trees”Submitted It's time to talk about TEEs as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pairings or Bilinear Maps (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email Encryption Using Nylas N1 and Keybase.io as a story · 1 points
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