Topic: Zerocash paper released (Read 5135 times)

Where do I put the .conf?

Any news yet? Has the project died?

zeronews

Anything new about zerocash?

From twitter:

You did hear something about it, apparently it's mostly FUD from the FBI and NSA.

I was just asking. Glad I was wrong. Case closed.

TOR isn't cracked, don't spread bullshit.

Isn't TOR cracked? I think I heard something about it (maybe Dawden, maybe not)?

+1, neither do I.

I believe the NSA had built insecurity into major implementations of elliptic curve crypto software, which may be the cause of their confusion.

Code and mathematics that the NSA / Dept Defence has most likely had input into.....If they find a back door - they wont announce it.

Add on the secret key that needs to be properly "destroyed" in order for this to work...I dont see this as a viable anonymity solution.

Yeah, lol. Like in OpenSSL or twenty year old window manager code.

I would suggest you to learn more about a coin before bashing it. This page say different:
http://zerocash-project.org/q_and_a


Prior to Zerocash, their Zerocoin project is already an open-source project.

They intend to keep it closed source according to twitter.

It's not true. Zerocash will be open-source project which mean everyone can analyze its source code. No backdoor can be hidden.

Also Zerocash dev team appear to be "anti-NSA" people on their twitter.

I know how to fix the no pruning problem but it comes with (your choice of) costs. PeterTodd does too— as we'd talked about it before, so it's possible ZeroCash will implement one of those solutions. (Either you make old coins unspendable or expensive (very large) to spend (and then perhaps economically unspendable).. in both cases your anonymity set is somewhat reduced. Then you can have some form of pruning.).

I don't know a single Brazilian, Pakistani, Indian, or Ukranian involved, and who cares even if there is?

I also contend your claim that there is "no real dev team" - are you in #monero-dev on Freenode? There is a very solid, concrete dev team that consists of developers from multiple continents including a handful who choose to remain anonymous.

"Plans to make the software more usable" is also nonsense - thus far we have not only found massive issues in the RPC API and either patched them or provided more correct documentation to those using Monero, but we have made our short-term and long-term plans clear. More specifically, you realise and understand that Bytecoin is so fundamentally flawed that their JSON RPC API documentation (such as it is) claims that the URL to use ends in a trailing slash, but this results in a 404 from the RPC API daemons? I mean, such a fundamental error for a coin that is apparently in existence for two years...

Finally, thus far we have improved the miner to 12x its original efficiency. To thank us for our hard work the Bytecoin devs merged our changes.

In other words, thus far only the Monero dev team have made any strides in improving and advancing the coin, and the others are merely inheriting the work we're doing.

Please glance at the github repos and merges / commits before making yourself look completely daft.

Zerocash has a GCHQ/Israel/NSA backdoor.
Anoncoin devs consist of one fat neckbeard trying to do all the work (or claiming too, the commits I've seen consist of "changed namespace name")
Darkcoin is rumored to have a 5% pre-mine http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=a_massive_investigation_of_instamines_and_fastmines_for_the_top_alt_coins#darkcoin
Bytecoin has bad software that is undocumented with no GUI wallet, and the devs aren't transparent enough to say "we're working on it goys!"
Bitmonero is a shitty clonecoin made by a brazilian/paki/indian who claimed to be Ukrainian, just a source copy of Bytecoin with no real dev team or plans to actually make the software more usable.
Bytecoin also has an 80% premine.
Bitmonero probably won't have a GUI wallet until the Bytecoin devs make them one.

I'm not too interested in Zerocash at the moment, the developers would really have to go out of their way to practically livestream them starting the network and "forgetting" the master key.
Darksend will hopefully be finalized soon and on the way to decent ring sig software.

Bytecoin devs could improve too, Bitmonero devs (what devs?) could put forth more effort than changing a few variables and releasing a clone-coin, Anoncoin could implement the same Zerocash as the Israeli researchers and "destroy" the master key...  Darkcoin devs could address the "premine" allegations again.

Still a gamble.

Edit: it is documented, and there is a 3rd party GUI wallet now

Thank you for the response.