Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on a software entitlement project based around the
zsl implementation in quorum. A zsl token based software license for
product management. I'll share more when possible, but currently it has a
tight nda. But you can add it to the use case list at least.
Co
Hey Lucas, thanks for pointing this out, I've also found this to be a
missing part of C-S notation. Here's one more subtle reason to be explicit
about what are the public inputs. When you generate public parameters for a
snark scheme, some public values may be hardcoded in the circuit, while
others
Andrew, I wanted to follow up on your proposal of formulating ZkPoKs. One
thing that was a bit counter intuitive to your notation is the fact that
while it's very clear what private inputs a snark has, the public inputs
are not clearly designated. E.g.:
ZkPoK{ (R1, R2): H1 = sha256(R1) and H2 = sh
One application that I like: sending ads with a proof proving they were
generated by some algorithm that is known not to have access to personal
data.
And I like that notation Andrew -- there is a sort of extension to it
(which is basically the idea of snarky) which involves not having to
declare
Lucas's post reminded me of something I wanted to post about:
If there's one thing I'd like to take up the torch for and advocate as a
standard, it's to use a conventional pseudocode for describing snark
application ideas. What I have in mind is Camenisch-Stadler proof
notation. It looks like this:
That's awesome Lucas, thanks for this input, these are pretty cool
application scenarios. They're all quite relevant to a standards effort
because they seem to involve interfacing between zkSNARKs and other
standardized primitives (password hash functions, anonymous credentials,
extensions to ZSL).
I've put some thoughts into possible use cases, here are some that we have
been thinking about in the context of decentralized business applications.
Some of these concepts are things we are actually working on, others just
ideas
- blind auctions (including double dutch auctions)
- page-rank style
Dear Zapps, I just wanted to let you know that there will be a standards
workshop organized by several academics / industry participants in May.
https://zkproof.org
I want to make sure that the workshop includes input from all the groups
involved in this open source community that are developing t
