How Does Peggy Prove Her Identity Without Giving Away the Root of Her Identity?
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5 min readJan 21, 2023
What’s the best way to prove our identity (or prove that you know a secret without giving it away)? Well, one of the most reliable is for you to generate a random number (x), and then store this in your digital wallet. You can then create a public value (X) when does not reveal the random value. In a discrete log form, we can represent this as:
