I've heard Steve Gibson (grc.com) use the phrase Trust No One (or TNO) when referring to client-side encryption.
-- Tanner J. On Feb 12, 2013 9:34 PM, "Tony Arcieri" <tony.arci...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have seen several services/people using the phrase "zero knowledge" > recently, e.g.: > > https://spideroak.com/ > > Based on my understanding of zero knowledge proofs and the traditional use > of "zero knowledge" in cryptography, this usage seems... novel, to put it > politely. In the case of SpiderOak, they're using it to mean "we never see > plaintext and we hold no keys to your ciphertexts so there's no way we can > read them" > > I've seen the Tahoe-LAFS folks, for example, attempt to use the phrase > "least authority" to imply the same thing, which makes sense to me, but > figuring out what "least authority" means in the context of a distributed > filesystem may be a tad... indirect. > > Is there a better phrase to describe this? End-to-end encryption? > Client-side encryption? Or is it okay to let people start using the phrase > "zero knowledge" refer to this idea? > > How do people feel about "zero knowledge" being used in this way? > > -- > Tony Arcieri > > _______________________________________________ > cryptography mailing list > cryptography@randombit.net > http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > >
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