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I know what you mean, ZK as in password auth. Then why in the first place encrypted storage was called zero knowledge? Complete misuse of the term.
by homakov 10y ago
I know what you mean, ZK as in password auth. Then why in the first place encrypted storage was called zero knowledge? Complete misuse of the term.
- hvidgaard 10y agoNot really. My example could just as well be done with any public key crypto system. If you want better examples, see the SO post https://mathoverflow.net/questions/22624/example-of-a-good-zero-knowledge-proof https://mathoverflow.net/questions/22624/example-of-a-good-z... But misuse of the term is most likely just because they didn't understand it in the first place. It is well defined, but rather abstract.
- floatboth 10y agoBecause if you encrypt data before uploading it to a server, the server has no (zero) knowledge about what that data is?
- homakov 10y agoBest explanation https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/08/crypto-misnomers-zero-knowledge-considered-self-descriptive https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/08/crypto-misnomers-zero-kno...