• Hacker News
  • new|
  • comments|
  • show|
  • ask|
  • jobs|
  • ksd482 2 hours

    Is the approach analogous to one way hash? But with mathematical statements?

    Given that they can’t be proven, so it’s effectively unpredictable and “un-generatable” ?

  • HoldOnAMinute 1 hours

    How is this not security through obscurity?

    majorchord 50 minutes

    If math is STO then I would argue passwords are also STO.

    It's only secure until someone figures it out.

  • zb3 29 minutes

    > to create a powerful new tool in cryptography.

    What is that new powerful tool in cryptography, then?

    > He wanted to build zero-knowledge proofs that weren’t interactive. Thirty years earlier, Goldreich and Oren had established that such proofs are impossible.

    I'm not sure what "interactive" means here, but I thought ZK-SNARKs were already non-interactive.

    It seems the article has nothing to do with anything practical..

    newsicanuse 7 minutes

    Typical of Quanta magazine