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+## 🍍 [circom](https://docs.circom.io/)
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+* circom is a domain-specific language (dsl) and a compiler that can used to generate and verify zkps.
+* zkps are powerful cryptographic tools that allow you to make proofs about a statement witout reveling any private information
+* circom and other dls are used to describe a computation, together with a set of constraints on the program in/output
+* the circom compiler takes a program and generates a prover and a verifier