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goldthreadsyesterday at 11:50 PM4 repliesview on HN

ZKP is 100% bullshit.

It’s a new word invented by people who don’t know hashing and databases already exist.


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nojokepoketoday at 12:24 AM

PAKE has been using ZKPs for a decade. Here. Read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Authenticated_Key_Exc...

Funny that not only are you ignorant you are violently confident in your ignorance. I suffer from this sometimes too so I get it. Get some help.

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Retr0idyesterday at 11:52 PM

A great way to announce that you don't understand ZKP

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diamondcloudstoday at 12:10 AM

It has a use case in peer-to-peer or anywhere that you want the server to trust the connections.

Sometimes you want clients to be authoritative (although rare).

Ar-Curunirtoday at 1:42 AM

Yes, they just hand out Turing Awards for bullshit.