14. Demystifying Privy’s security model with Asta Li

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Over Abstraction

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14. Demystifying Privy’s security model with Asta Li

Over Abstraction

46 minutes 17 seconds

2 years ago

14. Demystifying Privy’s security model with Asta Li

Asta is the co-founder and CTO of Privy. In this episode, we discuss:

Embedded wallets
How privy works under the hood
Shamir secret sharing (and why Privy uses it)
Privy security threat models
Future of account abstraction

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https://twitter.com/asta_li

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Timecodes

0:00 Intro

2:48 Privy overview

3:39 Asta’s Background

4:16 Embedded wallets

5:39 How Privy works

9:15 Privy as the bridge between web2 and web3

11:14 How key generation happens within Privy

16:41 Privy experience across devices

21:17 Different levels of security for different apps

23:51 friend.tech security

26:17 Attack concerns

28:52 Attacks on embedded wallets

32:50 Interoperability

38:56 The future of wallets

43:06 Building wallets vs. building autonomous vehicles

45:30 Follow Asta

45:50 Outro