This is the first blog post in a new code-centric series about selected optimizations found in pairing-based cryptography. Pairing operations are foundational to the BLS Signatures [1] central to Ethereum 2.0, zero-knowledge arguments central to Zcash and... (more…)

Kentik Labs is happy to announce the release of our first open-source Rust crate, netdiag, which provides scalable, asynchronous, implementations of a number of low-level network diagnostics including ping, trace, and a custom diagnostic we call knock. Ne... (more…)

Rust supports a number of type coercions, which implicitly convert one type to another. As in any language with coercion, there is a trade-off made between clarity when reading and ease of writing. While disagreement may be had about whether Rust’s list o... (more…)

linked to by This Week in Rust! Since I’ve been quickly becoming a Rustacean (Rust enthusiast) – see previous posts here – I decided to take a crack at the parser for my baseball … (more…)

Personal website of Matthias Endler, a Software Engineer interested in low-level programming and Backend development. Rust, Go... (more…)