TLSNotary with Dan and Sinu

In this episode, Anna Rose (x.com/AnnaRRose) and Nico Mohnblatt (x.com/nico_mnbl) speak with Dan and Sinu (x.com/sinu_eth) from TLSNotary (tlsnotary.org) to trace the project’s journey from early Bitcoin forum ideas to its current role as a foundational protocol maintained by PSE (pse.dev). Dan recounts the origins of TLSNotary as a tool for cryptographically proving web data, while Sinu explains how the project was revived to provide modern TLS attestation.

The conversation covers the use-cases for verifiable web proofs, the different modes these interactive protocols can take, and the broader impact of this technology on leveraging siloed user data.

Related links:

• Episode 325: Web Proofs with Tracy from Pluto (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/325)

• Episode 354: The Founding of Zero Knowledge Systems with Austin Hill (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/354)

• Episode 362: zkTLS with Maddy from Reclaim (zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/362)

• 2013 Blog Post ‘tlsnotary - cryptographic proof of fiat transfer for p2p exchanges’ (bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173220.0)

• TLSNotary Whitepaper (tlsnotary.org/TLSNotary.pdf)

• DECO: Liberating Web Data Using Decentralized Oracles for TLS (arxiv.org/abs/1909.00938)

• Primus Labs (Previously PADO) (primuslabs.xyz)

• Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed for Smart Contracts (eprint.iacr.org/2016/168)

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