Feige-Fiat-Shamir and Zero Knowledge Proof
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3 min readAug 16, 2018
Why do we still pass our passwords over a network? Why do we still hash passwords? Why can’t we come up with our own random value, and then prove to everyone that we know the secret?
Well, the Feige-Fiat-Shamir method provides a zero-knowledge proof — created by Uriel Feige, Amos Fiat, and Adi Shamir in 1988 [paper] — and where Bob can prove something to Alice, without revealing the…
