I found this blog post a great explanation: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer/ https://blog.cryptogra

I found this blog post a great explanation: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-kno... The cave parable always confused me. This blog-post made it click. I think the 'secret passage in the cave' is just a very bad stand-in for knowledge. Perhaps a maze would be better. But the parable also focuses to much on 'creating false transcripts' without explaining why being able to fake it makes it 'zero knowledge'.