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		renonce on March 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser... I don’t think zero knowledge systems are practical at the moment. It will take over around 8 orders of magnitude more compute and memory to produce a ZKP proof of generic computation like compilation. Even 2 orders of magnitude is barely acceptable.

afiodorov on March 30, 2024 [–]

I've been told verifiable builds are possible already, I don't know how practical though:

twitter.com/stskeeps/status/1774019709739872599

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