# Sietch Whitepaper

## What is Sietch?

Sietch is a way to increase the privacy and anonymity set of Zcash Protocol blockchains.

This is a whitepaper for the rough notes at https://git.hush.is/hush/sietch

## Install deps

Build dependencies on Debian-based systems include, at least:

```
   apt-get install texlive texlive-science texlive-fonts-extra texlive-generic-recommended biber
```

## Building the Whitepaper

```
    make
```

will create a PDF in the current directory and attempt to open it with `evince` automatically.

## Contributing

Patches Welcome!!! Currently only Linux is supported patches to support other OS's would be nice.

## Version History

  * 0.5 - First release May 2020
  * 0.6 - Small updates, Feb 2021
    * Updates regarding HUSH going full z2z at Block 340k
    * Give correct current status of Sietch implementations in SD+SDL

## Author

Duke Leto and The Hush Developers

## License

GPLv3 or later