Hey there 👋🏾

I am Godspower Eze and I am working towards implementing a verkle library in the Nim Programming Language.

This is a summary of how week 2 and week 3 went.

What did I learn in the past two weeks?

The past two weeks has been challenging and fun. I went from confused to a bit less confused. For complex topics, you will find that this a very big win.

I finally understand the gist of Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC).

The light bulb moment was when I understood that the main difference between Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Protocol and Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman is that (m^e mod n) discrete log problem was replaced by the aG discrete log problem respectively.

With this, I am excited to explore more about ECC and then Pedersen Commitments.

In the past weeks, I also experienced the beauty of mathematics and I am proud to say I have fallen in love with it. I plan to nurture this relationship long term. So help me God.

Have you reached out to the mentor for your choosen project?

Yes, I have.

They are currently coming up with a plan of how everyone interested in this project would be able to contribute.

Do you have other projects in mind?

Actually, I don't.

But, I intend on looking into verkle trie implementations in other languages and clients.

Resources I Used

• Road to RSA Cryptography
• Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman
• Elliptic Curves - Computerphile
• Elliptic Curve Cryptography Overview

Plan for week 4

While I wait for a response from the mentor, I would implement more cryptographic techniques(currently on RSA, study current verkle trie implementations like go-verkle and also play around with the Nim Programming Language. LFG!