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Morning Edition · Sunday, November 8, 2026Published at 12:54 AM EST · New York
Developer publishes a GKR prover with a machine-checked core and a faster sparse prover that produces byte-identical proofs
The work targets hash-heavy computation, which Ethereum's post-quantum plans depend on, and uses identical proof output to check that the speed optimization did not change what the verified code proves.
A post on the Ethereum Research forum describes an implementation of the Goldwasser-Kalai-Rothblum interactive proof protocol (GKR), in which the central part of the protocol is machine-checked, meaning a computer has formally verified its…
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