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Re:How to Prove You Know a Secret Without Giving It Away by yencabulator on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:49PM (#33179636)
That's more like publishing a cryptographic hash, and then later when the answer is revealed, others can verify you knew it earlier.

Zero-knowledge proofs let others perform that verification before the full answer is revealed (and it might never be).

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