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The system proposed in this study uses zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) to verify the traceability of wood recorded in a public blockchain. Wood is a byproduct of several states, ranging from standing trees to logs, lumber, and wood products…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kyohei Shibano , Tohru Nakajima , Gento Mogi

Privacy-preserving technologies have introduced a paradigm shift that allows for realizable secure computing in real-world systems. The significant barrier to the practical adoption of these primitives is the computational and communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yaman Jandali , Ruisi Zhang , Nojan Sheybani , Farinaz Koushanfar

We propose the first generalization of the famous Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs to quantum languages (NIZKoQS) and we provide a protocol to prove advanced properties on a received quantum state non-destructively and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Léo Colisson , Frédéric Grosshans , Elham Kashefi

This paper investigates a reconciliation method in order to establish an errorless secret key in a QKD protocol. Classical key distribution protocols are no longer unconditionally secure because computational complexity of mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Nedra Benletaief , Houria Rezig , Ammar Bouallegue

We introduce a new approach for circuit anonymous communication based on Lizama's non-invertible Key Exchange Protocol (ni-KEP) which has been conceived to work in the quantum era. Lizama's protocol has the smallest key size when compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Luis Adrián Lizama-Pérez

The intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and distributed systems has given rise to Federated Learning (FL), a paradigm that enables decentralized model training without compromising local data privacy. As organizational data silos…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Divya Gupta

Makaro is a logic puzzle with an objective to fill numbers into a rectangular grid to satisfy certain conditions. In 2018, Bultel et al. developed a physical zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) protocol for Makaro using a deck of cards, which allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is an attractive alternative to conventional public key cryptography, such as RSA. ECC is an ideal candidate for implementation on constrained devices where the major computational resources i.e. speed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ioannis Chatzigiannakis , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Paul G. Spirakis , Yannis C. Stamatiou

MPC-in-the-Head (MitH) is a general framework that allows constructing efficient Zero Knowledge protocols for general NP-relations from secure multiparty computation (MPC) protocols. In this paper we give the first machine-checked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-21 José Carlos Bacelar Almeida , Manuel Barbosa , Karim Eldefrawy , Stéphane Graham-Lengrand , Hugo Pacheco , Vitor Pereira

In decentralized web applications, users face an inherent conflict between public verifiability and personal privacy. To participate in regulated on-chain services, users must currently disclose sensitive identity documents to centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Supriya Khadka , Sanchari Das

Efficient zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have been restricted to NP statements so far, whereas they exist for all statements in PSPACE. This work presents the first practical zero-knowledge (ZK) protocols for PSPACE-complete statements by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ashwin Karthikeyan , Hengyu Liu , Kuldeep S. Meel , Ning Luo

Over the past few years, AI methods of generating images have been increasing in capabilities, with recent breakthroughs enabling high-resolution, photorealistic "deepfakes" (artificially generated images with the purpose of misinformation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Daniel Kang , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Ion Stoica , Yi Sun

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the value of data collaboration for data analytics purposes. Yet, stringent data protection laws prohibit the direct exchange of raw data. To facilitate data collaboration, federated Learning (FL)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yizheng Zhu , Yuncheng Wu , Zhaojing Luo , Beng Chin Ooi , Xiaokui Xiao

In this work, we consider a complete covert communication system, which includes the source-model of a stealthy secret key generation (SSKG) as the first phase. The generated key will be used for the covert communication in the second phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Pin-Hsun Lin , Carsten Rudolf Janda , Eduard Axel Jorswieck

Passwords are ubiquitous and most commonly used to authenticate users when logging into online services. Using high entropy passwords is critical to prevent unauthorized access and password policies emerged to enforce this requirement on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Khoa Nguyen , Benjamin Hong Meng Tan , Huaxiong Wang

Today, digital identity management for individuals is either inconvenient and error-prone or creates undesirable lock-in effects and violates privacy and security expectations. These shortcomings inhibit the digital transformation in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Matthias Babel , Johannes Sedlmeir

Location-based systems that combine encrypted geographic search with zero-knowledge proximity proofs typically treat the two phases as independent. Under an honest-but-curious server, this leaves an authorization provenance gap: once…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yoshiyuki Ootani

Recent work has shown that a simple chain of interacting spins can be used as a medium for high-fidelity quantum communication. We describe a scheme for quantum communication using a spin system that conserves z-spin, but otherwise is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Henry L. Haselgrove

Ethereum's scalability limitations pose significant challenges for the adoption of decentralized applications (dApps). Zero-Knowledge Rollups (ZK Rollups) present a promising solution, bundling transactions off-chain and submitting validity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Krzysztof Gogol , Szczepan Gurgul , Faizan Nehal Siddiqui , David Branes , Claudio Tessone

A circular quantum secret sharing protocol is proposed, which is useful and efficient when one of the parties of secret sharing is remote to the others who are in adjacent, especially the parties are more than three. We describe the process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 Fu-Guo Deng , Hong-Yu Zhou andGui Lu Long