Neat News 2139 (added 2021-11-08)

Secure data transfer

When data are transferred, for instance, to prove the identity of a person withdrawing money without revealing any information, so-called zero-knowledge proofs are used. In order to prevent that any information is leaked and abused in this process now an extension has been developed that prevents this by making use of the hard physical limitation of the speed of light.

related: #relativistic #zero_knowledge_proof

News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Physical/Tech