- Stun protocol: Trying to understand how to implement the ICE lite protocol without breaking everything done so far https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/9
- Sctp protocol: Unregister address after closing https://github.com/status-im/nim-webrtc/pull/11
- Create class to manage data (https://github.com/vacp2p/10ksim/pull/16).
- hardware offloaded for Waku testing
- Built 24 new Kubernetes workers, configured them with static IPs and all tuning
- Got new CX6 cards updated, configured, installed and working
- Achieved hardware offloading; but:
- Running a Waku workload, two interesting things happened
- When we started the publisher, the load increased until the physical nodes become so unusably slow that they needed IPMI intervention to come back to life
- Checking the offloadeded flows during the test (prior to publishing) showed no offloaded routes or flows.
- We need to figure out how to get our workload offloaded correctly.
- investigate and improve robustness of rln-relay, still in progress - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2537, https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2545
-`secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
- Created a PR with a first version of the RFC on the proposal for the decentralized communication protocol.
- Started exploring UPKE as a potential tool for the decentralized protocol.
- Discussed with Ugur some aspects of DCGKA around causal order.
-`secure-channels:waku:ethereum-chat`
- Attached some comments on DCGKA specification in [notion](https://www.notion.so/DCGKA-Specification-5a0b67a3ce674ae3a5220b560015cd2c?pvs=4)
- Research about causal ordering and create a small doc about it in [notion](https://www.notion.so/Applied-Cryptography-ZK-870520f131954b90b1837ec4749f890f?pvs=4#b9849886e7f947d5be4b087f44e2ce41)
- Quickly check the paper that compares and analyzes DCGKA (https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1531.pdf)
- Discuss with Ramses about decent SIWE, complexity and causal ordering.
- Started to examine DCGKA implementation to understand which causal ordering is used in [this repo](https://github.com/trvedata/key-agreement)
- could not launch holesky validators yet this week.
-`valpriv:vac:tor-push-paper`
- Finished changes as per feedback; next feedback round
-`gsub-scaling:vac:gossipsub-simulation`
- Played with IDontWant messags with different arrangements. Mainly investigated reduced message sending with/without hello messages.
Reduced sending shows nearly 5-10% latency and 20-25% bandwidth reduction when message sizes reach beyond 600 KB.
The findings are available as [notion page](https://www.notion.so/Limited-Forwarding-Can-Reduce-Latency-for-Large-Messages-a1d7797313694f0c856b0330bec77ae0#70563bd453944337b92e87674d5e2055)
- Interestingly {Reduced sending + IDontWant} without IHAVE messages shows similar performance to {Reduced sending + IDontWant + IHAVE}
-`zk:codex:storage-proofs-open-problems-review`
- Finish examining [current version of Codex system's description](https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-storage-proofs-circuits)
- Read Balazs' notes on [Plonk](https://github.com/codex-storage/zk-research-artifacts/blob/master/notes/plonk/plonk-notes.pdf)
### vac:nes:
-`state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
- Worked on Defining state separation's SE and DE using PDAGs (Moudy)
- Looked at nullifiers and their role in the architecture (Moudy)
- Worked on different components for State Separation Architecture (Moudy)
- Researched accumulators and trying to study how to integrate them (Moudy)
- Updated report according to the meeting with Moudy about [SE/DE in PDAGs](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#4a32272ca966467d8cd46833bedaafd0) (Ugur)
- Reading on scalable privacy [NC](https://neptune.cash/whitepaper/) + state of art [accumulation](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/474) (Ugur)
- Continued with [monitoring](https://www.notion.so/Nescience-cd358fe429b14fa2ab38ca42835a8451?pvs=4#26df10f045fb4c6683cbce362095a303) (Marvin)
