SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage

Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by bad_user on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:15PM (#13304606)

That's kind of bullshit though, you can't claim 2 common words from the English language in order to only describe a concept many of us don't understand. I'm a software developer, have been for 15 years, I've stayed fairly awake in college during my cryptography classes, have implemented hashing functions (mentioning this because such a history already place somebody in the 0.01%) and I've never heard of "zero knowledge proof".

Not surprisingly, the link you've given is about a phrase with 3 words in it, not 2.

And while I've always been annoyed about overloads of "open source", at least that's a words association that you won't hear from non-technical folks and that wasn't in use before OSI happened. And even so, note that OSI couldn't trademark it.

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Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by Ar-Curunir on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:54AM (#13307516)

Just because people don't know the term doesn't mean cryptographers don't know the term; any cryptographer with any formal cryptography training has heard of the term, and it's not used to refer to any other concept in the cryptographic literature.

The usage of the term matters when it'll be cryptographers reviewing the work; almost every thread about SpiderOak I've seen calls them out on misleading marketing. Hardly good for PR.

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