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News and updates on cryptography.

What is a multisignature? What is a ring signature?
ForkLog 50 02.05.2020

What is a multisignature? What is a ring signature?

1 What is a multisignature? A multisignature (multisignature or multisig) is a technique for authorising transactions with multiple private keys to improve security and privacy. It is a type of threshold signature implemented through conditions in a cryptocurrency’s scripting language. 2 How and when did multisignatures emerge? Although widely used in cryptocurrencies, the underlying principles long predate bitcoin.
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What is cryptography? Who are the cypherpunks?
ForkLog 22 08.04.2020

What is cryptography? Who are the cypherpunks?

1 What is cryptography? Cryptography is the science of methods that ensure data authentication, integrity and confidentiality. 2 When did cryptography emerge and how did it evolve? As a technique for protecting text, it arose alongside writing—methods of secret writing were known in ancient India, Mesopotamia and Egypt. In the first period of development (roughly from the third millennium BC to the ninth century) monoalphabetic ciphers predominated […].
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What is a zero-knowledge proof?
ForkLog 38 21.05.2019

What is a zero-knowledge proof?

A zero-knowledge proof is a cryptographic protocol that lets a prover convince a verifier that a statement is true without revealing any additional information about it. The notion was first proposed by MIT researchers Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali and Charles Rackoff in the 1985 paper The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems.
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Bitcoin Developer Proposes Two BIPs for Upcoming Soft Fork
nick 15 07.05.2019

Bitcoin Developer Proposes Two BIPs for Upcoming Soft Fork

Renowned Bitcoin developer and Blockstream contributor Pieter Wuille has published two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) aimed at implementing the Taproot technology through a soft fork.
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