Re:Time to Encrypt the Cloud
by homakov on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:49AM
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I know what you mean, ZK as in password auth. Then why in the first place encrypted storage was called zero knowledge? Complete misuse of the term.
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Not really. My example could just as well be done with any public key crypto system. If you want better examples, see the SO post https://mathoverflow.net/questions/22624/example-of-a-good-z...
But misuse of the term is most likely just because they didn't understand it in the first place. It is well defined, but rather abstract.
Because if you encrypt data before uploading it to a server, the server has no (zero) knowledge about what that data is?
Best explanation https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/08/crypto-misnomers-zero-kno...