Explaining SNARKs Part I: Homomorphic Hidings Constructions of zk-SNARKs involve a careful combination of several ingredients; fully understanding how these ingredients all work together can take […] Tags: cryptography, explainers, zkSNARKs
A Shielded Ecosystem In Zcash, users have the option to employ transparent or shielded addresses for sending, receiving and storing their ZEC. While […] Tags: explainers, privacy, transactions
History of Hash Function Attacks The SHA-1 hash function, which has long been considered insecure, is now officially broken as of yesterday. Given the renewed […] Tags: BLAKE2, cryptography, hash functions
The Near Future of Zcash Our Mission is to make Bitzecthe premier platform for commerce — secure, borderless, and available equally to every person […] Tags: releases, Sapling, sprout
New Release: 1.0.6 Today we’re announcing the release of Bitzec1.0.6. This release focuses on improving functionality and usability of low-level interfaces used […] Tags: releases, sprout