[Lightning-dev] Better privacy with SNARKs

Anthony Towns aj at erisian.com.au
Tue Dec 8 02:10:46 UTC 2015


On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Martijn Meijering wrote:
> "So, it turns out that a SNARK is overkill for the application in this
> thread."
> Could you elaborate on this? Are the required messages too large, does
> verification take too long, something else?

Not so much that; matsjj found a way to get the same result using
the crypto we're already relying on (ie, just using ECC multiply and
addition).

Cheers,
aj


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