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On the Distribution of the Distances of Random Words (eprint.iacr.org)
3 points by quantumgarbage 227 days ago
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A result proving that the capacity conjecture of Ben-Sasson, Carmon, Ishai, Kopparty and Saraf (J. ACM '23) is false. This conjecture is being used by quite a few zkVM projects, to reduce their proof size and verifier time.