#Sponge2 also comes with optimizations that have led to its adoption by Polygon Miden VM for hashing.

Learn more:
🔗 Paper - eprint.iacr.org/2024/911.pdf
🔗 Workshop Program - alpsy-workshop.github.io/program/
🔗 Presentation Slides - cosicdatabase.esat.kuleuven.be/files/public...

#Sponge2, a joint work with Tomer Ashur, finally extends the Sponge construction to prime fields and introduces a streamlined indifferentiability proof using a new abstraction called capacity-collision-free (CCF) functions.

Amit Singh Bhati presented the #Sponge2 construction at #ALPSY 2025, held in Obergurgl, Austria.
eprint.iacr.org/2024/911.pdf