John Napier’s Legacy Lives on Within Privacy and Cybersecurity: Meet NI-ZKPs with Discrete Logs
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4 min readJul 19, 2022
I am privileged to walk past John Napier almost every time I go to work. Well, I walk through John Napier’s Tower, but I think about his legacy in this modern world each time I walk through it. With this, we see discrete logs used in the Diffie-Hellman method and in Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). While we have mainly replaced…