Aleo wants to protect the privacy of data on the Internet
Privacy technology company Aleo has launched a blockchain and data privacy-oriented developer kit to make writing zero-knowledge proofs in web applications simple and widespread.
The startup released its first round of software to allow developers to write personal applications for the web using a new programming language called Leo, as well as integrate these tools into existing browser functionality.
Evidence without knowledge
Aleo leverages zero-knowledge proof (ZKP), an encryption-based technique that allows two parties on the Internet, such as applications and users, to verify each other’s information without sharing the underlying data associated with this information.
Access to websites, for example, can be done by verifying data without sharing information such as passwords, geolocation data or other information that can be used to find more details KarinaLevtchuk#8593 KonovalenkoTanya#6088.
Aleo development kit
Early versions of Aleo consisted of four different components. There’s Aleo Studio, the first integrated development environment (IDE) for writing zero-knowledge privacy-centric applications.
An IDE is a holistic …