A Shielded Ecosystem
In Zcash, users have the option to employ transparent or shielded addresses for sending, receiving and storing their ZEC. While this decision might initially seem like a choice that only
February 28, 2017
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 a while. If I had to choose one ingredient whose
February 28, 2017
Lessons From The History Of Attacks On Secure Hash Functions
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contact the author if you see errors or omissions. Summary Most of the secure hash functions ever designed have turned out to be vulnerable
February 24, 2017
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 interest in hash function collisions, I’d like to point out
February 24, 2017
The Near Future of Zcash
Our Mission is to make Zcash the premier platform for commerce — secure, borderless, and available equally to every person on our planet. We believe that Zcash can do for
February 21, 2017
New Release: 1.0.6
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.6. This release focuses on improving functionality and usability of low-level interfaces used by external software interfacing with Zcash, and on bolstering several
February 13, 2017
Transaction Linkability
Having the two types of addresses within Zcash (transparent and shielded) is an advantage which allows users to have more flexibility with how they store and transact ZEC. The dynamic
January 25, 2017
New Release: 1.0.5
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.5, which includes a variety of bugfixes and usability improvements. Summary of the changes in this release: The chain is now fully rescanned
January 23, 2017
An Update on Integrating Zcash on Ethereum (ZoE)
Members of the Ethereum R&D team and the Zcash Company are collaborating on a research project addressing the combination of programmability and privacy in blockchains. This joint post is being
January 19, 2017
A Future Friendly Fork
See also a related post: Consensual Currency. “Forks” (or “hard-forks”) are a highly contentious topic in cryptocurrencies. You can analyze a fork with two questions: Does it result in two
January 11, 2017
New Release: 1.0.4
Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.4, which fixes several bugs, improves performance, and adjusts mining policies. With this release, private payments will get relayed and mined faster. Summary
December 15, 2016
The Encrypted Memo Field
As of October 28, 2016, Zcash is a reality! Anybody with Internet access can download the software, connect to the global decentralized network, and send and receive payments, without exposing
December 5, 2016
