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Try any cryptography textbook! This is the whole point of zero knowledge proofs: that you can convince someone, yet they have no evidence (i.e, "zero knowledge") that they can take to another person and expect to convince them.


No, the zero knowledge part is that they only learn that you know a secret, but they don't learn anything about the secret. It's not about convincing others.


If you get some piece of evidence that you can take to others, then you do in fact learn something about the secret.




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