How Zcash Plans to Hide Your Keys From AI and Quantum Attacks

While much of crypto is still debating “bunker mode,” one team of Zcash developers says it already has a plan. Zakura, which builds a Zcash full node, said its team expects post-quantum signature opcodes to land in Zcash in January. Opcodes are low-level instructions that would let the network verify a new type of signature. The goal, according to an engineering post by Roman Akhtariev , is “full post-quantum safe transparent pools with hash based signatures.” Zcash supports two kinds of payments: shielded ones that hide the sender, recipient and amount, and transparent ones that are publicly visible, much as…