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Knowledge-based programs provide an abstract level of description of protocols in which agent actions are related to their states of knowledge. The paper describes how epistemic model checking technology may be applied to discover and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Ron van der Meyden

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have evolved from a theoretical cryptographic concept into a powerful tool for implementing privacy-preserving and verifiable applications without requiring trust assumptions. Despite significant progress in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Stefanos Chaliasos , Imam Al-Fath , Alastair Donaldson

Zero-Knowledge (ZK) rollups have become a popular solution for scaling blockchain systems, offering improved transaction throughput and reduced costs by aggregating Layer 2 transactions and submitting them as a single batch to a Layer 1…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-07 John Stephan , Matej Pavlovic , Antonio Locascio , Benjamin Livshits

With today's quantum processors venturing into regimes beyond the capabilities of classical devices [1-3], we face the challenge to verify that these devices perform as intended, even when we cannot check their results on classical…

The round complexity of interactive proof systems is a key question of practical and theoretical relevance in complexity theory and cryptography. Moreover, results such as QIP = QIP(3) (STOC'00) show that quantum resources significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Alex B. Grilo , Philippe Lamontagne

Identity-based cryptography (IBC), proposed by Adi Shamir, revolutionized public key authentication by eliminating the need for certificates, enabling a more efficient and scalable approach to cryptographic systems. Meanwhile, in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Soumya Bhoumik , Sarbari Mitra , Rohit Raj Sharma , Kuldeep Namdeo

This paper investigates the feasibility of achieving zero-knowledge verifiability for graph databases, enabling database owners to cryptographically prove the query execution correctness without disclosing the underlying data. Although…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hao Wu , Changzheng Wei , Yanhao Wang , Li Lin , Yilong Leng , Shiyu He , Minghao Zhao , Hanghang Wu , Ying Yan , Aoying Zhou

We present a signature scheme based on the Syndrome-Decoding problem in rank metric. It is a construction from multi-party computation (MPC), using a MPC protocol which is a slight improvement of the linearized-polynomial protocol used in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Loïc Bidoux , Jesús-Javier Chi-Domínguez , Thibauld Feneuil , Philippe Gaborit , Antoine Joux , Matthieu Rivain , Adrien Vinçotte

Security verification of communication protocols in industrial and safety-critical systems is challenging because implementations are often proprietary, accessible only as black boxes, and too complex for manual modeling. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Stefan Marksteiner , Mikael Sjödin , Marjan Sirjani

Imperfect Knowledge Management (IKM) aids in managing imprecise, uncertain, or incomplete aspects of meaning. IKM acknowledges that an enterprise's knowledge is often imperfect, characterized by varying degrees of imprecision, uncertainty,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Leoncio Jimenez , Yolanda Valdes , Jorge Vistoso , Germain Lacoste

Commonsense question answering (QA) research requires machines to answer questions based on commonsense knowledge. However, this research requires expensive labor costs to annotate data as the basis of research, and models that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xin Guan , Biwei Cao , Qingqing Gao , Zheng Yin , Bo Liu , Jiuxin Cao

This paper introduces a new set of privacy-preserving mechanisms for verifying compliance with location-based policies for vehicle taxation, or for (electric) vehicle (EV) subsidies, using Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). We present the design…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Dan Bogdanov , Eduardo Brito , Annika Jaakson , Peeter Laud , Raul-Martin Rebane

We initiate the study of non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) arguments for languages in QMA. Our first main result is the following: if Learning With Errors (LWE) is hard for quantum computers, then any language in QMA has an NIZK…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Andrea Coladangelo , Thomas Vidick , Tina Zhang

We construct a constant-round zero-knowledge classical argument for NP secure against quantum attacks. We assume the existence of Quantum Fully-Homomorphic Encryption and other standard primitives, known based on the Learning with Errors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Nir Bitansky , Omri Shmueli

Recently, researchers have been working toward the development of practical general-purpose protocols for verifiable computation. These protocols enable a computationally weak verifier to offload computations to a powerful but untrusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Justin Thaler

Blockchain technology has emerged as a revolutionary tool in ensuring data integrity and security in digital transactions. However, the current approaches to data verification in blockchain systems, particularly in Ethereum, face challenges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Alex Rusnak , Anton Yezhov , Dzianis Kanonik , Kateryna Kuznetsova , Stanislav Karashchuk

Ensuring that AI models are both verifiable and privacy-preserving is important for trust, accountability, and compliance. To address these concerns, recent research has focused on developing zero-knowledge machine learning (zkML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Hidde Lycklama , Alexander Viand , Nikolay Avramov , Nicolas Küchler , Anwar Hithnawi

In a recent breakthrough, Mahadev constructed an interactive protocol that enables a purely classical party to delegate any quantum computation to an untrusted quantum prover. In this work, we show that this same task can in fact be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Gorjan Alagic , Andrew M. Childs , Alex B. Grilo , Shih-Han Hung

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are the cornerstone of programmable cryptography. They enable (1) privacy-preserving and verifiable computation across blockchains, and (2) an expanding range of off-chain applications such as credential…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Thomas Gassmann , Stefanos Chaliasos , Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Zhendong Su

Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk-SNARKs) are a powerful tool for proving computation correctness, attracting significant interest from researchers, developers, and users. However, the complexity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Junkai Liang , Daqi Hu , Pengfei Wu , Yunbo Yang , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu