Freycoin Quote #27

I want to prove to you that I know a message that hashes to a given hash value using the SHA-1 hash. I don't want to reveal anything about the message to you. It's a zero-knowledge proof, and I've written a program to do this that I'll tell you about.
— Hal Finney1998-08-26
(presentation at the Crypto '98 conference, UC Santa Barbara)