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My understanding broke down when they introduced the Israeli connection, I couldn't understand what point was being made.
by retox 9y ago
My understanding broke down when they introduced the Israeli connection, I couldn't understand what point was being made.
- Bartweiss 9y agoIt's not very well written - this starts out as a children's story but rapidly transitions into 'conveyance' and 'authentication'. Simply: you can authenticate by testing one binary value many times (the cave), but you can shorten the handshake process by adding multiple secrets or multiple possibilities for each secret-test. The goal is to create a result which is highly improbable without secret knowledge, and you can trade off different values (number of secrets, number of handshakes, size of secrets) to achieve that. I confess I don't understand the last line of that section about 'conveyance'. The process appears robustly ZKP even without successive attempts.