A cryptographic method by which one party proves to another that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the truth of the statement itself, used in privacy-preserving authentication and in some blockchain systems.
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Core PrincipleA zero-knowledge proof is a protocol in which a prover convinces a verifier that a statement is true without conveying any information beyond the mere fact of the statement's truth. 1 Connections
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Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof: "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff in their paper The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems."
Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof: "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff in their paper The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems."
Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof: "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff in their paper The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems."
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1. Zero-knowledge proof - Wikipedia
History section, first paragraph
Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 by Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Charles Rackoff in their paper 'The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems'.
Lead section, opening paragraph
a protocol in which one party (the prover) can convince another party (the verifier) that some given statement is true, without conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of that statement's truth.
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