Explaining SNARKs Part VI: The Pinocchio Protocol
<< Part V In part V we saw how a statement Alice would like to prove to Bob can be converted into an equivalent form in the “language of polynomials”
May 10, 2017
Release Cycle and Lifetimes
Edit 2018-05-31: Auto-senescence terminology changed to “end-of-support halt”. Starting in May the Zcash development effort will institute a new release policy. There are a few immediate take-aways for users: We’ll
May 1, 2017
Internet Money
Six months ago today we launched an ambitious attempt to create Internet Money. We dream of giving every human on earth free and equal access to a global, programmable financial
April 28, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part V: From Computations to Polynomials
<< Part IV In the three previous parts, we developed a certain machinery for dealing with polynomials. In this part, we show how to translate statements we would like to
April 25, 2017
Payment Contexts & Reusing Shielded Addresses
The privacy provided in Zcash allows users to disclose a shielded payment address publicly or to multiple individuals without the worry of transactions sent to that address becoming linked in
April 19, 2017
Zcash in Brazil and South Africa
Today, we are telling the story of a company in Brazil who started a venture mining Bitcoin. With this revenue the company, coinBR, grew their business to build a money
April 18, 2017
Zcash 1.0.9 Postponed
We have decided to postpone the Zcash Sprout 1.0.9 release from today’s planned release date to mid-May. We have been planning a transition in May of our release process and
April 17, 2017
Zcash on iOS
An exciting update for the Zcash ecosystem comes from the Jaxx team. Jaxx were one of the very first wallets to support Zcash, implementing it into their Android and desktop
April 14, 2017
New Release: 1.0.8-1
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.8-1. This release fixes a security vulnerability detected in versions starting with 1.0.4 up to and including 1.0.8. More information on this vulnerability
April 13, 2017
Security Announcement 2017-04-13
Synopsis: A bug related to transaction priority handling may allow an attacker to crash Zcash nodes (DoS) via a specially crafted transaction. A fix is implemented in zcashd release 1.0.8-1.
April 13, 2017
Security Announcement 2017-04-12
Full announcement Please see the disclosure announcement. Update announcement We have deployed detectors to learn more about the issue and still have no evidence of malicious exploitation. We are working
April 12, 2017
Explaining SNARKs Part IV: How to make Blind Evaluation of Polynomials Verifiable
<< Part III In this part, we build on Part II and III to develop a protocol for verifiable blind evaluation of polynomials, which we will define shortly. In Part
April 11, 2017
