He shared this in a thread of tweets that attracted a series of reactions from the cryptocurrency community members.<\/p>\n
In his point of view, the megatrend of cryptography in the 2010s was elliptic curves, pairings and general purposes ZKPs\/SNARKs. Regarding the megatrend of cryptography in the 2020s, he said it will be lattices, LWE, multi-linear maps, homomorphic encryption, MPC, and obfuscation.<\/p>\n
Prediction: The megatrend in cryptography of the 2010s was elliptic curves, pairings and general purpose ZKPs\/SNARKs. The megatrend of the 2020s will be (in addition to broad adoption of the above) lattices, LWE, multilinear maps, homomorphic encryption, MPC and obfuscation, Vitalik Buterin shared<\/p>\n
He furthered by stating the theme that will be common in both 2010s and 2020s megatrends of cryptography. He said:<\/p>\n
The common theme in both is the rise of cryptographic primitives that operate over boolean or arithmetic circuits as a mathematical representation of computation, and hence cryptographic constructions becoming general purpose.<\/p>\n
In response to his take on the expected megatrends of cryptography in the 2020s, one of his followers said, Yes. And possibly some of these areas merging.<\/p>\n
Vitalik Buterin responded thus;<\/p>\n
Oh cryptography is all going to merge into a big jumble of heres how we efficiently represent everything as polynomials and here are the 73 clever things you can do with a polynomial https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\/status\/1248706367520755717<\/a><\/p>\n Another inquisitive Twitter user, who is a supposed Chainlink (LINK) community member, asked the co-founder of Ethereum how the cryptographic project (Chainlink) could fit into his prediction in the 2020s. He asked, How does Chainlink fit into this Vitalik?<\/p>\n Vitalik Buterin responded by saying:<\/p>\n Possible serious answer: with obfuscation, it might be possible to authenticate HTTPS responses (ie. data from websites) without needing trusted hardware.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n