Recently, there was a controversy about giving discounts to the armed
forces, as websites could track the movements of our troops.The
It made me curious to explore the idea of whether it's possible to
verify the credentials of the defence personnel without inheriting the
risk of storing the data of all defence personnel in a centralized
database center, which can be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
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It is a protocol in which one party can convince another party
that some given statement is true, without revealing the actual
underlying information. For example, in elections, a voter can cast
his/her vote in the ballot without revealing their identity.
Let me illustrate zero knowledge with a small story. There once lived a
boy named Alice who lived in a village. His village had a U-shaped cave
such that if a person entered from the left side, they could not exit