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

Blogroll

• Oded Goldreich's essays
• blog.cr.yp.to
• David Wong's Cryptologie
• Dcentralized thoughts
• Scott Aaronson
• Michael Nielsen
• Filippo Valsorda
• Craig Gidney
• Jeremy Kun

Cryptography and (zero-knowledge) proof systems

• Cryptography 101, Alfred Menezes
• A course in cryptography, Rafael Pass and abhi shelat toread{:.warning}

• The RareSkills Book of Zero Knowledge, RareSkills toread{:.warning}

• PLONK notes (wave 1), ret2basic.eth toread{:.warning}
• A brief history of lookup arguments, Tomer Solberg, Ingonyama, 2023
• RSA accumulators without hashing to prime[^KL24e]toread{:.warning}
• Lasso explanation by Distributed Labs[^FL25e]toread{:.warning}
• All of the MLE PCSs in my RobertoFest slides[^Lee21]$^,$[^BCHO22]$^,$[^KT23e]$^,$[^GPS25e]$^,$[^EG25e]toread{:.warning}
• Goldreich's short tutorial on ZK[^Gold10]toread{:.warning}
• Mutator sets[^SV23e]toread{:.warning}

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{:.warning}

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?](/files/articles/2024-11-01 Langdon Winner - Do Artifacts Have Politics.pdf), Langdon Winner

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