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Criminals seem to actually deal with a bit of a distributed trust problem. They rely on a reputation consensus to determine trust but that seems to require a c

Criminals seem to actually deal with a bit of a distributed trust problem. They rely on a reputation consensus to determine trust but that seems to require a culture of disclosing what you've done (bragging).

kijin 11y ago
That seems to be an interesting problem for the crypto community to have fun with. Could a person prove that one has successfully stolen a large amount of money in an unspecified series of heists, without actually incriminating oneself with having been a participant in any given heist?
- showerst 11y ago
  Is that a version of a Zero Knowledge Proof problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
  - gruez 11y ago
    Yes, but it's not a version that has a known solution.