Zk proofs are incredibly fast these days for small-ish programs. They’re much 
too slow for a consensus system where every party needs to download and 
validate them, but for relatively simple programs a two-party system using them 
is very doable.

> On Jan 20, 2020, at 13:23, Subhra Mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar1...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> But isn't it that the use of ZK proof will render the system slow and hence 
> defy the very purpose of lightning network which intends to make things 
> scalable as well as faster transaction ?
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:48 PM Matt Corallo <lf-li...@mattcorallo.com> 
>> wrote:
>> That paper discusses it, but I don't think there was ever a paper proper
>> on ZKCP. There are various discussions of it, though, if you google.
>> Sadly this is common in this space - lots of great ideas where no one
>> ever bothered to write academic-style papers about them (hence why
>> academic papers around Bitcoin tend to miss nearly all relevant context,
>> sadly).
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> On 1/20/20 6:10 PM, Subhra Mazumdar wrote:
>> > Are you referring to the paper Zero knowledge contingent payment
>> > revisited ? I will look into the construction. Thanks for the
>> > information! :)
>> > 
>> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 23:31 Matt Corallo <lf-li...@mattcorallo.com
>> > <mailto:lf-li...@mattcorallo.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> >     On 11/9/19 4:31 AM, Takaya Imai wrote:
>> >     > [What I do not describe]
>> >     > * A way to detect that data is correct or not, namely zero knowledge
>> >     > proof process.
>> > 
>> >     Have you come across Zero Knowledge Contingent Payments? Originally it
>> >     was designed for on-chain applications but it slots neatly into
>> >     lightning as it only requires a method to lock funds to a hash 
>> > preimage.
>> > 
>> >     Matt
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Yours sincerely,
> Subhra Mazumdar.
> 
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