--- Log opened Thu Nov 12 00:00:14 2020 01:29 -!- luke-jr [~luke-jr@unaffiliated/luke-jr] has quit [Quit: ZNC - http://znc.sourceforge.net] 01:30 -!- luke-jr [~luke-jr@unaffiliated/luke-jr] has joined #secp256k1 04:02 -!- belcher_ is now known as belcher 05:19 < elichai2> andytoshi: I also remember when I read the BP paper that it wasn't obvious how to "covert" the paper directly to a working NIZK implementation 05:20 < elichai2> did benedikt write it by himself? 05:59 < andytoshi> elichai2: i think it was largely jon bootle, based on the similarities to the paper it was based on ... and bootle being the intersection of the authors 06:00 < andytoshi> but basically dan boneh's team contacted us with a more-or-less complete paper and asked us to implement it and write the performance section 06:01 < andytoshi> i think we got authorship for having posed the question to them (how can we make faster pedersen-commitment rangerproofs) and for doing the perf stuff 06:02 < andytoshi> which in fairness, we nailed. with batch verification i think a rangeproof is as cheap to verify as like 5 signatures or something like that. though i guess it's comparably worse now that signatures can use the endo optimization :P 08:56 < andytoshi> and ofc schnorr signatures can be batch-verified too 12:31 -!- cfields [~cfields@unaffiliated/cfields] has joined #secp256k1 14:00 -!- Cory [~Cory@unaffiliated/cory] has quit [Ping timeout: 258 seconds] 14:08 -!- Cory [~Cory@unaffiliated/cory] has joined #secp256k1 15:57 -!- midnight [~midnight@unaffiliated/midnightmagic] has quit [Ping timeout: 244 seconds] 16:02 -!- midnight [~midnight@unaffiliated/midnightmagic] has joined #secp256k1 16:20 -!- dongcarl1 is now known as dongcarl 17:17 -!- sipa [~pw@gateway/tor-sasl/sipa1024] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 17:24 -!- sipa [~pw@gateway/tor-sasl/sipa1024] has joined #secp256k1 18:28 -!- queip [~queip@unaffiliated/rezurus] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 18:50 -!- sipa [~pw@gateway/tor-sasl/sipa1024] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 18:52 -!- sipa [~pw@gateway/tor-sasl/sipa1024] has joined #secp256k1 19:53 -!- belcher_ [~belcher@unaffiliated/belcher] has joined #secp256k1 19:57 -!- belcher [~belcher@unaffiliated/belcher] has quit [Ping timeout: 272 seconds] 21:02 -!- queip [~queip@unaffiliated/rezurus] has joined #secp256k1 --- Log closed Fri Nov 13 00:00:15 2020