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Are there any applications of zk-SNARKS outside cryptocurrency?
by panic 4y ago
Are there any applications of zk-SNARKS outside cryptocurrency?
- siftrics 4y agoYes, absolutely. In a fully public voting ledger, you could manually verify each vote is associated to a unique national identifier without revealing it. E.g., this vote corresponds to an SSN that hasn't cast any other vote, without revealing the SSN in question.
- unintendedcons 4y agoLooking forward to trying this! Any implementations?
- ricochet11 4y agozk'ing machine learning. hide the inputs for privacy. https://0xparc.org/blog https://0xparc.org/blog have a bunch of cool things like https://www.heyanon.xyz/ https://www.heyanon.xyz/ also the S part being succinct is useful without the zk parts too!
- web3isgoing 4y agoVerifiable computation. See Pinnochio and RISC Zero. https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/279.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/279.pdf https://www.risczero.com/ https://www.risczero.com/