Penumbra is building a shielded, cross-chain network for private transactions, staking, swaps, and marketmaking. We use zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) to provide privacy. One crucial component for effici...

This is a simple explanation of cryptographic commitment schemes, requiring minimal math or cryptography background.

In my last post I described how I implemented the signal-protocol Python library, which provides Python bindings using Pyo3 to an upstream maintained Rust cryptography crate implementing the Signal pr...

This post describes how I approached writing a Python extension in Rust. The post covers:

Motivation