> All in all, using zero-knowledge proofs for research may not have much benefit. “There is almost no situation in research where one research group is so far ahead of all the other research groups that they can keep novel results secret for long,”
> Given this experience, Gidney says in a blog post, “I don’t think it’s the right strategy moving forward” to publish such results with zero-knowledge proofs. “The benefits are negligible, and the costs are many. We should just publish openly.”
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> All in all, using zero-knowledge proofs for research may not have much benefit. “There is almost no situation in research where one research group is so far ahead of all the other research groups that they can keep novel results secret for long,”
> Given this experience, Gidney says in a blog post, “I don’t think it’s the right strategy moving forward” to publish such results with zero-knowledge proofs. “The benefits are negligible, and the costs are many. We should just publish openly.”