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We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Danny Bickson , Tzachy Reinman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

Verification of quantum computation is a task to efficiently check whether an output given from a quantum computer is correct. Existing verification protocols conducted between a quantum computer to be verified and a verifier necessitate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Yuki Takeuchi , Akihiro Mizutani

We study decentralized cryptocurrency protocols in which the participants do not deplete physical scarce resources. Such protocols commonly rely on Proof of Stake, i.e., on mechanisms that extend voting power to the stakeholders of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Iddo Bentov , Ariel Gabizon , Alex Mizrahi

Proof-of-work (PoW) is an algorithmic tool used to secure networks by imposing a computational cost on participating devices. Unfortunately, traditional PoW schemes require that correct devices perform computational work perpetually, even…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Diksha Gupta , Jared Saia , Maxwell Young

When large AI models are deployed as cloud-based services, clients have no guarantee that responses are correct or were produced by the intended model. Rerunning inference locally is infeasible for large models, and existing cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Pranay Anchuri , Matteo Campanelli , Paul Cesaretti , Rosario Gennaro , Tushar M. Jois , Hasan S. Kayman , Tugce Ozdemir

Byzantine fault tolerant protocols enable state replication in the presence of crashed, malfunctioning, or actively malicious processes. Designing such protocols without the assistance of verification tools, however, is remarkably…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Joel Wanner , Laurent Chuat , Adrian Perrig

We propose a secure computation solution for blockchain networks. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under malicious majority condition using information-theoretic Message Authentication Code (MAC), and the privacy is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Derek Zhang , Alex Su , Felix Xu , Jiang Chen

This paper addresses the problem of formally verifying desirable properties of neural networks, i.e., obtaining provable guarantees that neural networks satisfy specifications relating their inputs and outputs (robustness to bounded norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Krishnamurthy , Dvijotham , Robert Stanforth , Sven Gowal , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

Blind quantum computation protocols allow a user with limited quantum technology to delegate an intractable computation to a quantum server while keeping the computation perfectly secret. Whereas in some protocols a user can verify that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-04 Kentaro Honda

Permissioned ledger technologies have gained significant traction over the last few years. For practical reasons, their applications have focused on transforming narrowly scoped use-cases in isolation. This has led to a proliferation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ermyas Abebe , Yining Hu , Allison Irvin , Dileban Karunamoorthy , Vinayaka Pandit , Venkatraman Ramakrishna , Jiangshan Yu

Streaming interactive proofs (SIPs) are a framework to reason about outsourced computation, where a data owner (the verifier) outsources a computation to the cloud (the prover), but wishes to verify the correctness of the solution provided…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Samira Daruki , Justin Thaler , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

The cryptographic task of secure multi-party (classical) computation has received a lot of attention in the last decades. Even in the extreme case where a computation is performed between $k$ mutually distrustful players, and security is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Yfke Dulek , Alex B. Grilo , Stacey Jeffery , Christian Majenz , Christian Schaffner

The problem of securely outsourcing computation to cloud servers has attracted a large amount of attention in recent years. The verifiable computation of Gennaro, Gentry, Parno (Crypto'10) allows a client to verify the server's computation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yan He , Liang Feng Zhang

The paper examines decentralized cryptocurrency protocols that are based on the use of internal tokens as identity tools. An analysis of security problems with popular Proof-of-stake consensus protocols is provided. A new protocol,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Alexander Chepurnoy

In this work, we present novel protocols over rings for semi-honest secure three-party computation (3PC) and malicious four-party computation (4PC) with one corruption. While most existing works focus on improving total communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Christopher Harth-Kitzerow , Ajith Suresh , Yongqin Wang , Hossein Yalame , Georg Carle , Murali Annavaram

Constrained devices in IoT networks often require to outsource resource-heavy computations or data processing tasks. Currently, most of those jobs are done in the centralised cloud. However, with rapidly increasing number of devices and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Michał Król , Ioannis Psaras

Training powerful AI systems to exhibit desired behaviors hinges on the ability to provide accurate human supervision on increasingly complex tasks. A promising approach to this problem is to amplify human judgement by leveraging the power…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jonah Brown-Cohen , Geoffrey Irving , Georgios Piliouras

Offloading of computation, e.g., to the cloud, is today a major task in distributed systems. Usually, consumers which apply offloading have to trust that a particular functionality offered by a service provider is delivering correct…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Benjamin Körbel , Marten Sigwart , Philip Frauenthaler , Michael Sober , Stefan Schulte

Our ability to know when to trust the decisions made by machine learning systems has not kept up with the staggering improvements in their performance, limiting their applicability in high-stakes domains. We introduce Prover-Verifier Games…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Cem Anil , Guodong Zhang , Yuhuai Wu , Roger Grosse

We present a composably secure protocol allowing $n$ parties to test an entanglement generation resource controlled by a possibly dishonest party. The test consists only in local quantum operations and authenticated classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Raja Yehia , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis