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title: "Why we like CESR 1: There will be a lot of cryptography in the future"
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date: "2024-07-22"
year: 2024
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# Why we like CESR 1: There will be a lot of cryptography in the future

A vLEIDA newsletter post of July 2024, the first in a series on why its authors like CESR, on the expectation of many more cryptographic primitives in the future.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://vleida.substack.com/p/why-we-like-cesr-1-there-will-be (license not recorded).
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