Proving Things With Hats
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3 min readJan 6, 2023
When you log into your bank, you may be asked for certain characters from your password. If Eve was trying to hack Bob’s account, she might guess the characters correctly, but the more times she is asked, the less chance there will be in getting the characters right, based on a random guess.
In a similar way, Victor (the verifier) might challenge Peggy (the prover) to reveal something about her secret, and every time…
