CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "ZKP" redirects here. For the airport in Russia, see Zyryanka Airport . In cryptography , a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover ) can prove to another party (the verifier ) that a given statement is true, without conveying any information apart from the fact that the statement is indeed true. If proving the statement requires knowledge of some secret information on the part of the prover, the definition implies that the verifier will not be able to prove the statement in turn to anyone else, since the verifier does not possess the secret information. Notice that the statement being proved must include the assertion that the prover has such knowledge (otherwise, the statement would not be proved in zero-knowledge, since at the end of th...