Cryptography underpins everything we do – in crypto and beyond – but not everyone has taken a cryptography course.

In this talk Dan Boneh (Professor in Applied Cryptography and Computer Security at Stanford University, Senior Advisor at a16z crypto) starts from the beginning. Boneh defines cryptographic primitives, shares how to apply them correctly to blockchains, and, along the way, traces the evolution of blockchain cryptography.

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