0xPARC

Supporting application R&D on Ethereum and decentralized platforms.

ZK Identity: Why and How (Part 1) Last month, we kicked off the 0xPARC ZK-Identity Working Group: a working group experimenting with zkSNARKs to build digital identity tools. This post is the first in a series on why advances in cryptography will be important for enabling new identity primitives. This first post covers the “Why”; future posts will cover the “How.” The design of online identity systems has been the subject of intense debate in the last few years. Modern digital identity systems have enabled new and complex kinds of online interactions and communities. Unfortunately, many of…

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