Author Topic: Seen who's sponsoring Zerocoin?  (Read 2294 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline btswildpig

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1424
    • View Profile
 :o  lost interest when I saw the name "zero" .......

Bad mojo ..... 
这个是私人账号,表达的一切言论均不代表任何团队和任何人。This is my personal account , anything I said with this account will be my opinion alone and has nothing to do with any group.

Offline kenCode

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2283
    • View Profile
    • Agorise
kenCode - Decentraliser @ Agorise
Matrix/Keybase/Hive/Commun/Github: @Agorise
www.PalmPay.chat

Offline toast

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4001
    • View Profile
  • BitShares: nikolai
Actually, that's pretty sweet. DoD made tor too
« Last Edit: March 18, 2015, 04:03:03 pm by toast »
Do not use this post as information for making any important decisions. The only agreements I ever make are informal and non-binding. Take the same precautions as when dealing with a compromised account, scammer, sockpuppet, etc.

Offline kenCode

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2283
    • View Profile
    • Agorise
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
kenCode - Decentraliser @ Agorise
Matrix/Keybase/Hive/Commun/Github: @Agorise
www.PalmPay.chat

Offline mf-tzo

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1725
    • View Profile
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

  • Guest
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]

Offline CLains

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2606
    • View Profile
  • BitShares: clains

Offline 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! :)
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
www.Peerplays.com | Decentralized Gaming Built with Graphene - Now with BookiePro and Sweeps!
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Offline 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

« Last Edit: March 10, 2015, 09:02:37 pm by bobmaloney »
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
- Jack Handey (SNL)

Offline 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.