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Delegated quantum computation enables a client with limited quantum capabilities to outsource computations to a more powerful quantum server while preserving correctness and privacy. Verification is crucial in this setting to ensure that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Fabian Wiesner , Anna Pappa

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…

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We construct a publicly-verifiable non-interactive zero-knowledge argument system for QMA with the following properties. 1. Transparent setup. Our protocol only requires a uniformly random string (URS) setup. The only prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 James Bartusek , Ruta Jawale , Justin Raizes , Kabir Tomer

In blockchain systems, especially cryptographic currencies such as Bitcoin, the double-spending and Byzantine-general-like problem are solved by reaching consensus protocols among all nodes. The state-of-the-art protocols include…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Jianwen Chen , Kai Duan , Rumin Zhang , Liaoyuan Zeng , Wenyi Wang

With the widespread adoption of Zero-Knowledge Proof systems, particularly ZK-SNARK, the efficiency of proof generation, encompassing both the witness generation and proof computation phases, has become a significant concern. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Zheming Ye , Xiaodong Qi , Zhao Zhang , Cheqing Jin

When computation is outsourced, the data owner would like to be assured that the desired computation has been performed correctly by the service provider. In theory, proof systems can give the necessary assurance, but prior work is not…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Graham Cormode , Justin Thaler , Ke Yi

Blockchain offers traceability and transparency to supply chain event data and hence can help overcome many challenges in supply chain management such as: data integrity, provenance and traceability. However, data privacy concerns such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Sidra Malik , Volkan Dedeoglu , Salil Kanhere , Raja Jurdak

We propose three constructions of classically verifiable non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs and arguments (CV-NIZK) for QMA in various preprocessing models. - We construct a CV-NIZK for QMA in the quantum secret parameter model where a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Tomoyuki Morimae , Takashi Yamakawa

Analyses that fulfill differential privacy provide plausible deniability to individuals while allowing analysts to extract insights from data. However, beyond an often acceptable accuracy tradeoff, these statistical disclosure techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Matthias Babel , Johannes Sedlmeir

Modern mathematics is built on the idea that proofs should be translatable into formal proofs, whose validity is an objective question, decidable by a computer. Yet, in practice, proofs are informal and may omit many details. An agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Sylvain Carré , Franck Gabriel , Clément Hongler , Gustavo Lacerda , Gloria Capano

Encrypted control systems allow to evaluate feedback laws on external servers without revealing private information about state and input data, the control law, or the plant. While there are a number of encrypted control schemes available…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Sebastian Schlor , Michael Hertneck , Stefan Wildhagen , Frank Allgöwer

Privacy preserving multi-party computation has many applications in areas such as medicine and online advertisements. In this work, we propose a framework for distributed, secure machine learning among untrusted individuals. The framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yunhui Long , Tanmay Gangwani , Haris Mughees , Carl Gunter

Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) allows a set of parties to securely compute a functionality in a distributed fashion without the need for any trusted external party. Usually, it is assumed that the parties know each other and have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Malte Breuer , Ulrike Meyer , Susanne Wetzel

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are an emerging technology that has become the solution to efficiently provide security and privacy along with the transparency requirement of blockchains. ZKPs are usually expressed by means of arithmetic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Miguel Isabel , Enric Rodríguez-Carbonell , Clara Rodríguez-Núñez , Albert Rubio

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) mixers are one of the most widely-used blockchain privacy solutions, operating on top of smart contract-enabled blockchains. We find that ZKP mixers are tightly intertwined with the growing number of Decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhipeng Wang , Stefanos Chaliasos , Kaihua Qin , Liyi Zhou , Lifeng Gao , Pascal Berrang , Ben Livshits , Arthur Gervais

As usage of generative AI tools skyrockets, the amount of sensitive information being exposed to these models and centralized model providers is alarming. For example, confidential source code from Samsung suffered a data leak as the text…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Manil Shrestha , Yashodha Ravichandran , Edward Kim

Secret sharing and multiparty computation (also called "secure function evaluation") are fundamental primitives in modern cryptography, allowing a group of mutually distrustful players to perform correct, distributed computations under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Michael Ben-Or , Claude Crépeau , Daniel Gottesman , Avinatan Hassidim , Adam Smith

Verifiable delay functions have found a lot of applications in blockchain technology in recent times. Continuous verifiable delay functions are an improvement over the basic notion of VDFs with recursive capabilities. We are proposing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ekleen Kaur , Gokul Alex

Watermarking schemes for large language models (LLMs) have been proposed to identify the source of the generated text, mitigating the potential threats emerged from model theft. However, current watermarking solutions hardly resolve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Haohua Duan , Liyao Xiang , Xin Zhang

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data points from a trained model to satisfy privacy, copyright, and safety requirements. In real deployments, providers distribute a global model to many edge devices, where each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mohammad M Maheri , Sunil Cotterill , Alex Davidson , Hamed Haddadi