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In known constructions of classical zero-knowledge protocols for NP, either of zero-knowledge or soundness holds only against computationally bounded adversaries. Indeed, achieving both statistical zero-knowledge and statistical soundness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Taiga Hiroka , Tomoyuki Morimae , Ryo Nishimaki , Takashi Yamakawa

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

We propose a new declarative planning language, called K, which is based on principles and methods of logic programming. In this language, transitions between states of knowledge can be described, rather than transitions between completely…

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User authentication is one of the most important aspects for secure communication between services and end-users over the Internet. Service providers leverage Single-Sign On (SSO) to make it easier for their users to authenticate…

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Identity verification is the process of confirming an individual's claimed identity, which is essential in sectors like finance, healthcare, and online services to ensure security and prevent fraud. However, current password/PIN-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yao Ma , Wen Yu Kon , Jefferson Chu , Kevin Han Yong Loh , Kaushik Chakraborty , Charles Lim

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 initiate the study of relativistic zero-knowledge quantum proof of knowledge systems with classical communication, formally defining a number of useful concepts and constructing appropriate knowledge extractors for all the existing…

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CairoZero is a programming language for running decentralized applications (dApps) at scale. Programs written in the CairoZero language are compiled to machine code for the Cairo CPU architecture and cryptographic protocols are used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jeremy Avigad , Lior Goldberg , David Levit , Yoav Seginer , Alon Titelman

Recently, there has been significant progress in studying neural networks for translating text descriptions into SQL queries under the zero-shot cross-domain setting. Despite achieving good performance on some public benchmarks, we observe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yujian Gan , Xinyun Chen , Matthew Purver

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

With the development of precise positioning technology, a growing number of location-based services (LBSs) facilitate people's life. Most LBSs require proof of location (PoL) to prove that the user satisfies the service requirement, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Wei Wu , Erwu Liu , Xinglin Gong , Rui Wang

A step-by-step presentation of the code for a small theorem prover introduces theorem-proving techniques. The programming language used is Standard ML. The prover operates on a sequent calculus formulation of first-order logic, which is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lawrence C. Paulson

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

In this work we consider the following problem: in a Multi-Prover environment, how close can we get to prove the validity of an NP statement in Zero-Knowledge ? We exhibit a set of two novel Zero-Knowledge protocols for the 3-COLorability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Claude Crépeau , Arnaud Massenet , Louis Salvail , Lucas Stinchcombe , Nan Yang

In this work we consider the interplay between multiprover interactive proofs, quantum entanglement, and zero knowledge proofs - notions that are central pillars of complexity theory, quantum information and cryptography. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-28 Alex B. Grilo , William Slofstra , Henry Yuen

This paper describes techniques to help with COVID-19 automated contact tracing, and with the restoration efforts. We describe a decentralized protocol for ``proof-of-contact'' in zero knowledge where a person can publish a short…

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The Tokeneer project was an initiative set forth by the National Security Agency (NSA, USA) to be used as a demonstration that developing highly secure systems can be made by applying rigorous methods in a cost effective manner. Altran…

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As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains, traditional data privacy measures prove inadequate for protecting information that is implicit, contextual, or inferable - what we define as semantic privacy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Baihe Ma , Yanna Jiang , Xu Wang , Guangsheng Yu , Qin Wang , Caijun Sun , Chen Li , Xuelei Qi , Ying He , Wei Ni , Ren Ping Liu

This document shows how Z specifications can be translated into $\{log\}$ and, later, on how $\{log\}$ can be used to run simulations and automated proofs. This can help users of other specification languages such as B and VDM to use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Maximiliano Cristiá , Gianfranco Rossi

Clarification need prediction (CNP) is a key task in conversational search, aiming to predict whether to ask a clarifying question or give an answer to the current user query. However, current research on CNP suffers from the issues of…

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