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Zcash Counterfeiting Vulnerability Successfully Remediated

Eleven months ago we discovered a counterfeiting vulnerability in the cryptography underlying some kinds of zero-knowledge proofs. This post provides details on the vulnerability, how we fixed it and the steps taken to protect Zcash users.

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Security Announcement

New Release: 2.0.0

We’re happy to announce the release of Zcash 2.0.0, the first Sapling-compatible version of the Zcash node software! Sapling Activation […]

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bugs
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Overwinter
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releases
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Sapling

Completion of the Sapling MPC

Zcash’s next major upgrade, codenamed Sapling, will be activated later this year. One of our final goals before activation is […]

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Parameter Generation
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Sapling

What’s New in Sapling

The next major upgrade of Zcash, codenamed Sapling, is scheduled to activate in October 2018. The specific block height has […]

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releases
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roadmap
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Sapling

Announcing the Sapling MPC

Zcash’s shielded transactions rely on zk-SNARKs — small, fast-to-verify zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrarily complicated statements. These proving schemes rely on […]

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Parameter Generation
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Sapling

Improved zk-SNARK Multi-party Computation Protocol

zk-SNARKs – the zero-knowledge proofs at the core of Zcash – require a parameter generation ceremony to take place for […]

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cryptography
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Parameter Generation
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zkSNARKs

Cultivating Sapling: Faster zk-SNARKs

Zcash’s next major upgrade, codenamed Sapling, will feature a set of groundbreaking performance improvements for our shielded transactions. In the […]

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protocol
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Sapling
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zkSNARKs

Cultivating Sapling: New Crypto Foundations

Zcash’s next major protocol upgrade, codenamed Sapling, will feature a number of improvements to the performance, security and usability of […]

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protocol
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Sapling
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zkSNARKs

New Release: 1.0.10-1

Today we’re announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.10-1, a hotfix release that all users are encouraged to upgrade to, especially […]

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hotfix
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releases

Pay-to-sudoku Revisited

Last year, I created a project called pay-to-sudoku which was the world’s first implementation of a zero-knowledge contingent payment (ZKCP). […]

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cryptography
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ZKCP
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zkSNARKs

Bellman: zk-SNARKs in Rust

Bellman is a Rust-language library for building zk-SNARKs — small, cheap-to-verify zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrary computations. The goal of bellman […]

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cryptography
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Rust
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zkSNARKs

BIP199 for Hashed Timelocked Contracts

Hashed Timelocked Contracts (HTLC) are a well-known and simple technique for building protocols for atomic swaps. They allow you to […]

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bitcoin
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XCAT
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