Privacy-focussed cryptocurrency, Zcash, has disclosed an inflation bug, discovered 11 months ago, which affected its own and several other privacy-coins. Though the Zcash vulnerability has now been remedied, it took 8 months after discovery, and some coins remain exposed. Zero Knowledge Last March, a Zcash engineer noticed a mistake in a cryptography paper describing certain ‘zero knowledge’ proofs. Zcash (ZEC) and several other coins, use these proofs to enable many of their privacy features. TheRead MoreThe post Zcash Discloses Inflation Bug That Could Have Created Infinite Tokens appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.
