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floody-berry | 10 years ago

Yeah, a made-up term that was ripped off from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof because it sounded high-tech, yet has nothing to do with ZKP and merely means "you encrypt everything client-side and we store binary blobs on the server for you".

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yc1010|10 years ago

I see so this works similar to how blockchain.info site works in the browser, with the server used for encrypted backups and to retrieve blockchain data.

Thanks for answering

pzduniak|10 years ago

We actually based the Lavaboom Sync functionality on blockchain.info's model - the private keys are encrypted using user's plaintext password, while the client only sends the password's hash to the server during authentication.