Alin Tomescu on Distributed On-chain Randomness and Keyless Accounts

In this week’s episode, https://twitter.com/annarrose (Anna) and https://twitter.com/nico_mnbl (Nico) chat with https://twitter.com/alinush (Alin Tomescu), founding team member and Head of Cryptography at https://twitter.com/AptosLabs (Aptos Labs). They discuss Alin’s journey to Aptos and his work on distributed on-chain randomness as well as the new Aptos Keyless project. They cover the Keyless accounts architecture, how the flow works for the user and some of the subtleties in the approach they have taken. Here’s some additional links for this episode: https://zeroknowledge.fm/302-2/ (Episode 302: ZK for web2 interop with zkLogin and ZK Email) https://zeroknowledge.fm/156-2/ (Episode 156: Stateless Validation with Alin Tomescu) https://zeroknowledge.fm/228-2/ (Episode 227: Move and Sui with Sam Blackshear from Mysten Labs) https://aptos.dev/ (Aptos Developer Documentation) https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/296.pdf (OpenPubkey: Augmenting OpenID Connect with User held Signing Keys by Heilman, Mugnier, Filippidis, Goldberg, Lipman, Marcus, Milano, Premkumar and Unrein) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PY8gF0r5RuF6B4SXXQnGQ6w2Oa0vXHi4FSZ91lyNShA (Aptos Keyless Accounts slides) https://github.com/aptos-foundation/AIPs/blob/main/aips/aip-61.md (Aptos Improvement Proposal (AIP) on Keyless Accounts) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RlbQI65oWH76-Op3ddEoRHgW54G_uhx2QdMC3JzTAa4/edit#slide=id.p (Aptos Randomness API in Move slides) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGu05ALsSpE (Aptos Randomness API in Move slides presented by Alin Tomescu) https://github.com/aptos-foundation/AIPs/blob/main/aips/aip-41.md (Aptos Improvement Proposal (AIP) on the Move Randomness APIs) Check out the https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/ (ZK Jobs Board) Applications to attend zkSummit11 are now open, head over to the https://www.zksummit.com/ (zkSummit website) to apply now. The event will be held on 10 April in Athens, Greece. Launching soon, https://namada.net/ (Namada) is a proof-of-stake L1 blockchain focused on multichain, asset-agnostic privacy, via a unified shielded set. Namada is natively interoperable with fast-finality chains via IBC, and with Ethereum using a trust-minimised bridge. Follow Namada on Twitter https://twitter.com/namada (@namada) for more information and join the community on Discord http://discord.gg/namada (discord.gg/namada). If you like what we do: Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge (@ZeroKnowledge | Linktree) Subscribe to our https://zeroknowledge.substack.com (podcast newsletter) Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram (Telegram) Catch us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/ (YouTube)