S10 E11: Nigel Smart, Zama

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Smart is from Britain, but currently lives in Belgium. He has a PhD in mathematics, but headed into the world of cryptography early on. He has started a few companies in the past, both of which have successfully exited, one to Coinbase. But outside of technology, he loves to cycle and attend concerts. When asked about food, he said he loves all food - as long as it doesn't include eggplant. Very early on, Nigel got involved with one of his current ventures. As an advisor, he stated to spend more and more time with the company, supporting it through its many iterations in building next level encryption for application builders - and doing so through open source. This is the creation story of Zama. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Homeorphic encryption allows you to do computation on encrypted data.
0:04.4	That's great.
0:05.3	Now, what does a blockchain do?
0:06.8	A blockchain allows you to do authentic computation on public data.
0:11.5	The authentic computation is that the smart contracts are agreed beforehand,
0:15.8	and the data is authentic in that we know it's replicated correctly over the blockchain.
0:21.6	Authentic public information means the data on the blockchain is in the clear.
0:26.3	On the other hand, with homeowner for encryption, we can encrypt that data.
0:30.2	So if we can combine homomorphic encryption with blockchain technology,
0:34.2	we can solve all sorts of problems that the blockchain ecosystem has.
0:39.0	My name's Nigel Smart. I am the chief academic officer at Zama.
0:46.6	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.7	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
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