Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?

[btswildpig]

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

Bad mojo ..... 

[kenCode]

DoD made tor too

Exactly.

[toast]

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

[kenCode]

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

[mf-tzo]

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

[Tuck Fheman]

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]

[CLains]

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 

[BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode]

"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!

[bobmaloney]

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

[onceuponatime]

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.