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any link to presentations/papers on this? I'm interested on learning ZKPs -- they seem so much like "fairy-tale come true" because I don't know much

• Cider9986 20d ago
  nym.com might have some. They use stuff like that heavily and there's a bunch of academics involved. Also ZCash.
• jval43 20d ago
  It's standard cryptography, not some new-fangled tech! Wikipedia even has some easy examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof Main caveat is that ZKPs are probabilistic. The protocol (number of rounds etc) determines how sure, e.g. 99.9%. But never 100%. Second caveat: tech- and crypto-bros play fast and loose with the term "ZKP", either because they don't know any better (marketing) or they straight up lie. Whether any application you run actually uses ZKP (or any other cryptography scheme) is unknown unless you have the source code.
  • irchans 20d ago
    https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/141.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/141.pdf
    • jval43 20d ago
      Reading that, the execution is now deterministic but the soundness is still probabilistic and <100%, no? Unless I'm reading it wrong.
• hasley 20d ago
  I liked this: "I can prove I’ve solved this Sudoku without revealing it" https://youtu.be/Otvcbw6k4eo https://youtu.be/Otvcbw6k4eo
• jmusall 20d ago
  Here's a site with a few (three) introductory articles on ZKPs: https://zkintro.com https://zkintro.com One in particular on pratical implementation of ZKPs was popular on HN back in 2024: https://zkintro.com/articles/programming-zkps-from-zero-to-hero https://zkintro.com/articles/programming-zkps-from-zero-to-h... (discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41398092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41398092)