Today we are announcing the security audit results from five expert security auditors who we contracted last year. We hired these experts to conduct comprehensive security and design audits in
We support science. Open scientific investigation is the only way for developers to learn what works and what doesn’t work to protect users and fulfill our mission. Today, George Kappos,
We at Zcash are committed to the security and safety of our user community as we seek to empower everyone with economic freedom and opportunity. Zcash has engaged five leading
As a science-focused team, ensuring the security of the Zcash protocol and the users of the network is a natural part of our development process. We are committed to serving
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.
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
Synopsis: A cache invalidation bug may allow an attacker to trigger a chain fork causing pre-1.0.3 nodes to follow an invalid chain. A fix is implemented in zcashd release 1.0.3.
As we announced back in August, we commissioned two security audits of the Zcash codebase and an analysis of our proof-of-work algorithm. We published the two security audits shortly before
As a security-focused team, made up of world-class talent, we prioritize the security of Zcash users. True security comes from empowering users directly, and to that end, we will always
As Mike Perry of Tor Project wrote back in 2013, while the Snowden revelations were ongoing, one of the most dreaded of scenarios is the so-called “watering hole” attack, where
Our mission is to make the first open financial technology with zero-knowledge privacy, for every person in the world to use. To that end we are commissioning multiple security audits
Zcash is a science-driven company, and our team is always working on advancing the forefront of human knowledge. Here is a round-up of science news from our team. Side Channel
