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> 5 of them Zcash employees. Huh? Doesn't that contradict https://blog.z.cash/the-design-of-the-ceremony/ https://blog.z.cash/the-design-of-the-ceremony/ ?
by abecedarius 9y ago
> 5 of them Zcash employees.
Huh? Doesn't that contradict https://blog.z.cash/the-design-of-the-ceremony/ https://blog.z.cash/the-design-of-the-ceremony/ ?
- IIAOPSW 9y agoof the 6 person ceremony we have ZCash founder, ZCash technical advisor (Andrew Miller), ZCash CTO (Nathan Willock). My bad. 3 of the 6 (possibly +1 because one is still unknown). I mis-remembered. Arguably the person from NCC isn't conflict free as they were paid directly by ZCash.
- abecedarius 9y agoNCC gets paid to do security audits, and getting paid puts their (very high) professional reputation on the line. I'll admit I'm biased: I worked a bit with Zooko and Nathan (Wilcox), pre-Zcash, on some other security audits. My experience was that making the client look good is really not a consideration. Phrase your findings neutrally and informatively, yes; but you earn your rep by being as creatively nasty as you can at breaching the system. Not to argue against evaluating claims skeptically -- just to state my most important disagreement.