[zapps-wg] Round 23 attestation

Daira Hopwood daira at z.cash
Wed Dec 13 06:42:09 EST 2017


On 12/12/17 21:05, Peter Todd wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 06:47:38PM +0000, Daira Hopwood via zapps-wg wrote:
>> On 04/12/17 21:19, Justin Drake via zapps-wg wrote:
>>> Bounty
>>> ======
>>>
>>> I am offering 5 ETH (about 2,300 USD at the time of writing) to the first person who can
>>> recover the randomness for my part of the ceremony. The bounty is valid until 31 December
>>> 2023.
>>
>> I suspect that it may actually be possible to do this by breaking DLP (given the
>> challenge and response files) before 2023.
> 
> So to be clear, you think there's a reasonable chance that it becomes possible
> to counterfeit Zcash before 2023?

Sorry, that'll teach me to write emails while jetlagged: I misread the date.

I don't think it is at all likely that DLP on BLS12-381 can be feasibly broken by 2023.
It will be breakable at some point, but not by then.

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Daira Hopwood  ⚧Ⓐ

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