Vac weekly update

Signed-off-by: ksr <kaiserd@users.noreply.github.com>

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+title: "2024-01-01 Vac weekly"
+tags:
+  - "vac-updates"
+date: 2024-01-01
+lastmod: 2024-01-01
+draft: false
+---
+
+## Vac 2024/01/01
+
+### vac:p2p:
+- `nimlibp2p:vac:maintenance`:
+    - Case `'FloodSub message size validation 2'`:
+        - Run tests in different mac envs: VM: Failure; M2: Success
+        - The previous tests support the hypothesis this is timeout/cpu-power related
+    - Other flaky tests?
+        - Either the previous VM or M2 didn't find any other failing tests (just one attempt, though):
+            - `testpubsub`: Only `'FloodSub message size validation 2'` fails.
+            - `testdaemon`: Stuck after a couple logs regarding IPs.
+            - `testnative`: Success
+
+### vac:tke:
+
+### vac:dst:
+- `eng-10ktool:vac:bandwidth-test:`
+    - Fixed behavior issues in Rust node (https://github.com/vacp2p/dst-gossipsub-test-node-rust)
+    - Simulation results (https://www.notion.so/Results-Rust-011fb77dea4b482ba8283f1adb762c9c)
+    - Python libp2p is not stable (https://libp2p.io/implementations/), and with no changes from the last 6 months. Not using for comparisons.
+- `vac:dst:software-testing:waku:test-automation-interop-testing`
+    - Implemented the filter push/get messages and filter ping tests: [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/waku-interop-tests/pull/9)
+    - Issues reported:
+        - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2319
+        - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2320
+        - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2322
+- `software-testing:waku:test-automation-nwaku`
+    - Create Autosharding Tests PR
+        - [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2318)
+    - Investigate and add simple mocking mechanism
+    - Begin working in Connection Peer Management Tests
+        - [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/2321)
+            - Done: Migrations, PeerStorage
+            - In Progress: Protobuf Serialisation, WakuPeerStorag
+
+### vac:acz:
+
+### vac:sc::
+
+### vac:nescience:
+- `proofsystems:vac:research-existing-proof-systems`
+    - conitinued researching Arecibo (https://blog.lurk-lang.org/posts/arecibo-supernova/)
+    - Started reading CycleFold (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1192.pdf)
+- `proofsystems:vac:benchmarks`
+    - prepared Halo2 common PR (https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/23)
+    - Worked on a refactoring for halo2 PRs  https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/22 https://github.com/vacp2p/zk-explorations/pull/21
+- `state-separation:vac:state-separation-doc`
+    - Continue with mimblewimble
+    - Research [Ugur's idea](https://discord.com/channels/864066763682218004/1184929429290500167/1187686785929724004)
+    - Read about private and public kernel circuits from Az.
+    - Finish the research about how we can update public state with a private execution.
+    - Update the proposal because last version is not applicable.
+
+### vac:dr:
+
+### vac:rfc:
+- `waku:waku-keystore`
+    - Updated keystore to be more descriptive for some sections. Ready for feedback  - https://github.com/vacp2p/rfc/pull/631 
+- `admin/misc`
+    - Worked on implementing 14/WAKU2-MESSAGE for excutable spec
+