# 2022-07-14 21:51:23.02841 CEST (+0200)
Bitreichcon 2022 ZK/cryptography workshop requirements
On this year's Bitreichcon, as part of the physical weekend event, we
will be holding a workshop on recent advances in cryptographic areas
such as zero-knowledge proofs.
The workshop will consist of some theory and some practical examples
for which we will need pen and paper (which will be provided), but also
to introduce the participants to real-world usecases using big numbers
that cannot easily be cracked by computers, we will need to use tools
that help us do these computations which by hand would take very long.
For this, we shall use SageMath[0] which is a FOSS tool based off of
Python, and shares the same language syntax. With SageMath we can very
easily work with finite fields and elliptic curves, so in order to gain
practical knowledge, we will use big primes and secure elliptic curves,
which SageMath allows us to do with ease.
So as a prerequisite to the workshop, make sure you have SageMath
installed, and if you're interested, you can even try finding some
tutorials to figure out how it works in general.
See you at Bitreichcon 10+(((9*8*7)-6+5)*(4+3-2-1)) !
~parazyd
[0]
https://www.sagemath.org/
