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July 18, 2017 07:07 am PDT
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Puzzles that teach the fundamentals of crypto's essential, elusive zero-knowledge proofs
Zero-knowledge proofs are one of the most important concepts in cryptography: they're a way to "validate a computation on private data by allowing a prover to generate a cryptographic proof that asserts to the correctness of the computed output" -- in other words, a way to prove that something is true without learning the details. (more…)
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