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As large language models (LLMs) are used in sensitive fields, accurately verifying their computational provenance without disclosing their training datasets poses a significant challenge, particularly in regulated sectors such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mina Namazi , Alexander Nemecek , Erman Ayday

This paper studies the complexity classes QZK and HVQZK of problems having a quantum computational zero-knowledge proof system and an honest-verifier quantum computational zero-knowledge proof system, respectively. The results proved in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hirotada Kobayashi

We introduce Zero-Knowledge Location Privacy (ZKLP), enabling users to prove to third parties that they are within a specified geographical region while not disclosing their exact location. ZKLP supports varying levels of granularity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jens Ernstberger , Chengru Zhang , Luca Ciprian , Philipp Jovanovic , Sebastian Steinhorst

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, have led to widespread adoption across various applications. Yet, a fundamental challenge persists: how can we verify the correctness of AI model inference when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yunxiao Wang

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

The application of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) in autonomous systems is an emerging area of research, motivated by the growing need for regulatory compliance, transparent auditing, and trustworthy operation in decentralized environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Munawar Hasan , Apostol Vassilev , Edward Griffor , Thoshitha Gamage

Traditional centralized scholarship evaluation processes typically require students to submit detailed academic records and qualification information, which exposes them to risks of data leakage and misuse, making it difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yi Chen , Bin Chen , Peichang Zhang , Da Che

Privacy-preserving computation (PPC) methods, such as secure multiparty computation (MPC) and homomorphic encryption (HE), are deployed increasingly often to guarantee data confidentiality in computations over private, distributed data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Tariq Bontekoe , Dimka Karastoyanova , Fatih Turkmen

Federated learning (FL) has been widely adopted in various fields of study and business. Traditional centralized FL systems suffer from serious issues. To address these concerns, decentralized federated learning (DFL) systems have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mojtaba Ahmadi , Reza Nourmohammadi

Recent advances in the cryptographic field of "Zero-Knowledge Proofs" have sparked a new wave of research, giving birth to many exciting theoretical approaches in the last few years. Such research has often overlapped with the need for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mario Alessandro Barbara

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

As AI models become ubiquitous in our daily lives, there has been an increasing demand for transparency in ML services. However, the model owner does not want to reveal the weights, as they are considered trade secrets. To solve this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Bing-Jyue Chen , Lilia Tang , Daniel Kang

This paper studies the problem of Zero-Knowledge Protocol (ZKP) and elliptic curve cryptographic implementation in a computationally limited environment, such as, the smart cards, using Java Card. Besides that, it is explained how the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Carlos Andres Agudelo Serna

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) systems have surged attention and held a fundamental role in contemporary cryptography. Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge (zk-SNARK) protocols dominate the ZKP usage, implemented…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qizhe Yang , Boxuan Liang , Hao Chen , Guoqiang Li

Zero-knowledge proofs are mathematical cryptographic methods to demonstrate the validity of a claim while providing no further information beyond the claim itself. The possibility of using such proofs to process classified and other…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-02 Sébastien Philippe , Robert J. Goldston , Alexander Glaser , Francesco d'Errico

Protecting secrets is a key challenge in our contemporary information-based era. In common situations, however, revealing secrets appears unavoidable, for instance, when identifying oneself in a bank to retrieve money. In turn, this may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Pouriya Alikhani , Nicolas Brunner , Claude Crépeau , Sébastien Designolle , Raphaël Houlmann , Weixu Shi , Nan Yang , Hugo Zbinden

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

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

Training contemporary AI models requires investment in procuring learning data and computing resources, making the models intellectual property of the owners. Popular model watermarking solutions rely on key input triggers for detection;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Nojan Sheybani , Zahra Ghodsi , Ritvik Kapila , Farinaz Koushanfar

In this paper we present ZKlaims: a system that allows users to present attribute-based credentials in a privacy-preserving way. We achieve a zero-knowledge property on the basis of Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (SNARKs).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Martin Schanzenbach , Thomas Kilian , Julian Schütte , Christian Banse