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No — the word 'proof' is accurate, it establishes with certainty that you know the value of x.
by eruleman 5y ago
No — the word 'proof' is accurate, it establishes with certainty that you know the value of x.
- Kranar 5y agoI thought you were right until I decided to look into it myself, turns out we were both wrong. Zero-knowledge proofs are probabilistic and contain a soundness error which is the probability of guessing the correct answer. This can, in some but not all cases, be brought down arbitrarily close to 0, but it can never be 0 exactly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#Definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#Definitio...