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Glossary
The terms behind private payments and private AI, in plain language.
- Access key
- The random secret in your browser that identifies your credits. The server stores only a hash of it.
- Attestation
- Signed evidence from protected hardware describing exactly what software is running, checked before sending data.
- Backup key
- The secret that encrypts your chat backup. It never leaves your device.
- Confidential computing
- Running software in hardware-protected memory that the machine's operator can't read.
- Confirmation
- A new block on the chain after your payment. Credits are added after a few.
- Credit
- ZCode's prepaid unit. 1 credit = £0.10. Each answer holds 1.50 credits, or more for large documents, and charges what it used.
- Recovery code
- A code starting with zr1 that carries your access key and backup key. The private key to your session.
- Shielded address
- A Zcash address whose payments hide the sender, receiver and amount using zero-knowledge proofs.
- Transparent address
- A Zcash address whose payments are fully public, like Bitcoin.
- Viewing key
- A Zcash key that can see incoming payments but can't spend them.
- ZIP-321
- The Zcash standard for payment requests: the format behind an invoice's QR code.
- Zero-knowledge proof
- A way to prove a statement is true without revealing the data behind it.