This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Pan Chasinga
Last weekend I've finally finished a functional proof-of-concept command line tool called zmsg which is built on Zcash, a cryptocurrency focusing on anonymous payments. I've been experimenting with ways to build a social platform that focuses on total anonymity that's censorship-tolerant.
The tool allows anyone with a Zcash shielded address to send a 512-byte maximum ASCII or Unicode message to any recipient with a shielded address with very small possibility of any middleman knowing the identity of either party and the content of the message.
Zcash is built on Z-snark, a very complex mathematical cryptography which makes it fast and trivial to a prover to prove an ownership without revealing any information about themselves and the owned entity.
The fallback here is the cumbersome experience of spinning up a Zcash daemon, creating and maintaining addresses, and very importantly the time it takes for a message to be verified on the blockchain (which can take several minutes).
I would appreciate if anyone of you could star the project or contribute in anyway. That would greatly motivate me!
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Pan Chasinga
Pan Chasinga | Sciencx (2021-05-18T19:27:39+00:00) Zmsg: Zero-knowledge Messaging on the Blockchain. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/05/18/zmsg-zero-knowledge-messaging-on-the-blockchain/
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