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Re:Edward Snowden: Zcash Is 'Most Interesting Bitcoin Altern... by ewillbefull on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:56PM (#15369963)
Zero-knowledge proofs for a given statement, by definition, reveal nothing about its witness. zk-SNARKs (used by Zcash) are statistically zero-knowledge; there are no cryptographic assumptions involved.
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Re:Edward Snowden: Zcash Is 'Most Interesting Bitcoin Altern... by EGreg on Saturday September 30, 2017 @11:54PM (#15376306)
As a slight aside, I always wondered if zero-knowledge proofs really reveal "slight" knowledge.

That is, if I ask 1 billion questions about a resource, and get true, verifiable answers, can't I find out something about it? For example, some projection onto a linear subspace or something.

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