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Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity with Abhi Shelat | a16z crypto Research Series

Privacy-Preserving Digital Identity with Abhi Shelat | a16z crypto Research Series

Source: YouTube · a16z crypto · published May 9, 2026 · 1:01:02

Identity & Access Management
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This talk presents work on zero-knowledge credentials from ECDSA signatures, addressing how to prove credential validity without revealing the underlying signature or private key 0:17.

Key Takeaways:
• Abby Shalad, a professor at Northeastern and engineer at Google, presents collaborative research with colleague Matteo on zero-knowledge credentials from ECDSA 0:09
• The presentation provides a high-level overview of the core problem and their proposed solution approach 0:38
• The team is actively seeking community feedback, particularly on techniques to further optimize their approach 0:43

The talk establishes the technical foundation before diving into deeper implementation details.

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  • 0:09 Introduction of speaker Abby Shalad and topic of zero-knowledge credentials from ECDSA
  • 0:38 Description of the talk as a high-level overview of the problem and solution
  • 0:43 Request for feedback on optimization techniques

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All right. So, I'm uh excited to have Abby Shalad here today. Uh Abby is a professor at Nor Eastern and an engineer at Google and he's going to tell us about uh work he's done recently on zero knowledge credentials from ECDSA. Take it away. >> Thank you, Justin. And thank you Justin and Tim for inviting us here today uh to sort of talk about our work get feedback from you. Uh my colleague Matteo's also here in the audience and we're around to answer all sorts of deeper technical questions about this. Uh this talk is a very high level overview of what the problem is and how we've basically solved it and we'd love to get your feedback especially on techniques that can be used to optimize this approach even further. So, first I'm going to describe what the problem is. And in the identity worl…