Read Zero Knowledge As I Write It

Last week I wrote about starting a novel. I ended that post stuck on a decision: publish the whole thing in the open as I write it, or do the normal thing and wait until it’s finished. I decided to write in the open. That’s my nature. Zero Knowledge now has a home at zeroknowledge.ink. Six chapters are up. More land as I write them. It’s free to read. You can also write back. I’m going to integrate all of this into AuthorMagic for anyone who wants to write a book this way. And yes, when it’s done, I’ll publish it as an actual book in all book-related forms. Zero Knowledge is about three twenty-something MIT grads who run a quantum startup called Basalt Labs in Basalt, Colorado. One of them, Samantha, invents an algorithm that breaks classical cryptography - RSA, elliptic curves, every public-key lock the financial system runs on. Given her algorithm, Bitcoin dies. Every secret anyone ever encrypted becomes readable. The post-quantum lattice schemes survive, so the world has a…