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Title: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: onceuponatime on March 10, 2015, 08:22:16 pm

http://zerocash-project.org/about_us

About us
Authors

    Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion)
    Alessandro Chiesa (MIT)
    Christina Garman (Johns Hopkins University)
    Matthew Green (Johns Hopkins University)
    Ian Miers (Johns Hopkins University)
    Eran Tromer (Tel Aviv University)
    Madars Virza (MIT)

Sponsors

This work was supported by:

    Amazon.com through an AWS in Education research grant
    Broadcom Foundation and Tel Aviv University Authentication Initiative
    Center for Science of Information (CSoI), an NSF Science and Technology Center,          under grant agreement CCF-0939370
    Check Point Institute for Information Security
    U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) under contract FA8750-11-2-0211
    European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 240258
    Israeli Centers of Research Excellence I-CORE program (center 4/11)
    Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology
    The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
    Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-11-1-0470
    Simons Foundation, with a Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science
    Skolkovo Foundation under grant agreement dated 10/26/2011

The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: bobmaloney on March 10, 2015, 08:56:24 pm

(https://thenanfang.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Jackie-Chan-WTF-meme-face-01.jpg)

I'm sure there is a "reasonable" explanation - kind of reminds me of the Theranos Board of Directors:

https://www.theranos.com/our-company

*Edit: It looks like that DARPA contract FA8750-11-2-0211 funds quite a bit of cryptographic research

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode on March 11, 2015, 04:16:23 am

"Zerocash guarantees users' privacy by providing "Zerocash payment transactions" that do not reveal the payment's origin, destination, or amount of any transaction. Any transaction is recorded in the ledger as a random-looking string that suffices to ensure the monetary invariants, yet is zero-knowledge: it reveals nothing beyond the fact that, somewhere, some valid transaction occurred."

So the fix is to take away the auditing capability of transactions?

They must have had one hell of a power point! :)

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: CLains on March 12, 2015, 02:05:53 pm

Quote from: DataSecurityNode on March 11, 2015, 04:16:23 am

They must have had one hell of a power point! :)

Or being really good on the phone,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSHUha9ABNY#t=1m55s  :D

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: Tuck Fheman on March 12, 2015, 02:18:53 pm

All of our hard drives and phones have been backdoored, what's one more backdoor?  :-\

Yeah I was really behind Zerocoin protocol since it was first being discussed because of Matthew Green, but lost interest back when I saw the state's involvement.

I try not to support evil corporations as much as possible. 

Especially the kind that like to suppress free speech and claim that it's a problem. ;)

[/backhandedbitsharesbarb]

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: mf-tzo on March 12, 2015, 02:20:17 pm

Don't get at which stage this is...Is this launched? can someone trade zerocash and if not is there an estimation of when?

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: kenCode on March 18, 2015, 03:32:15 pm

Quote from: mf-tzo on March 12, 2015, 02:20:17 pm

Don't get at which stage this is...Is this launched? can someone trade zerocash and if not is there an estimation of when?

"Not yet": http://zerocoin.org/q_and_a#can-i-use-it-now

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: toast on March 18, 2015, 04:01:27 pm

Actually, that's pretty sweet. DoD made tor too

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: kenCode on March 18, 2015, 04:16:58 pm

Quote from: toast on March 18, 2015, 04:01:27 pm

DoD made tor too

Exactly.

Title: Re: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?
Post by: btswildpig on March 19, 2015, 10:26:14 am

 :o  lost interest when I saw the name "zero" .......

Bad mojo .....