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Redactable Signature Schemes and Zero-Knowledge Proofs are two radically different approaches to enable privacy. This paper analyses their merits and drawbacks when applied to decentralized identity system. Redactable Signatures, though…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Bryan Kumara , Mark Hooper , Carsten Maple , Timothy Hobson , Jon Crowcroft

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) enable computational integrity and privacy by allowing one party to prove the truth of a statement without revealing underlying data. Compared with alternatives such as homomorphic encryption and secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ryan Lavin , Xuekai Liu , Hardhik Mohanty , Logan Norman , Giovanni Zaarour , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The study of interactive proofs in the context of distributed network computing is a novel topic, recently introduced by Kol, Oshman, and Saxena [PODC 2018]. In the spirit of sequential interactive proofs theory, we study the power of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Pierluigi Crescenzi , Pierre Fraigniaud , Ami Paz

Numberlink is a logic puzzle with an objective to connect all pairs of cells with the same number by non-crossing paths in a rectangular grid. In this paper, we propose a physical protocol of zero-knowledge proof for Numberlink using a deck…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

Motivated by the fact that input distributions are often unknown in advance, distribution-free property testing considers a setting where the algorithmic task is to accept functions $f : [n] \to \{0,1\}$ with a certain property P and reject…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hugo Aaronson , Tom Gur , Ninad Rajgopal , Ron D. Rothblum

When users query proprietary LLM APIs, they receive outputs with no cryptographic assurance that the claimed model was actually used. Service providers could substitute cheaper models, apply aggressive quantization, or return cached…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zhaohui Geoffrey Wang

Proof-labeling schemes are known mechanisms providing nodes of networks with certificates that can be verified locally by distributed algorithms. Given a boolean predicate on network states, such schemes enable to check whether the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Laurent Feuilloley , Pierre Fraigniaud

Distributed certification, whether it be proof-labeling schemes, locally checkable proofs, etc., deals with the issue of certifying the legality of a distributed system with respect to a given boolean predicate. A certificate is assigned to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Pierre Fraigniaud , Pedro Montealegre , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

NuLink provides privacy-preserving technology for decentralized applications via APIs. Users can securely store its valuable data, trade with others and so on. To ensure the privacy and security of service provided by NuLink,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Pawn , Rookie , Zhuan Cheng

Zero-knowledge proofs are an essential building block in many privacy-preserving systems. However, implementing these proofs is tedious and error-prone. In this paper, we present zksk, a well-documented Python library for defining and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Wouter Lueks , Bogdan Kulynych , Jules Fasquelle , Simon Le Bail-Collet , Carmela Troncoso

An undirected graph $G$ is known to both the prover $P$ and the verifier $V$, but only $P$ knows a subgraph $H$ of $G$. Without revealing any information about $H$, $P$ wants to convince $V$ that $H$ is a connected spanning subgraph of $G$,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

Probabilistic model checkers like PRISM only check probabilistic systems of a fixed size. To guarantee the desired properties for an arbitrary size, mathematical analysis is necessary. We show for two case studies how this can be done in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Johannes Hölzl , Tobias Nipkow

A recent line of work initiated by Chiesa and Gur and further developed by Herman and Rothblum investigates the sample and communication complexity of verifying properties of distributions with the assistance of a powerful, knowledgeable,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elbert Du , Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala , Linjun Zhang

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

It is known that there exist multi-prover interactive protocols ($\mathsf{MIP}$ protocols) for the complexity class $\mathsf{NEXP}$, succinct $\mathsf{MIP}$ protocols for $\mathsf{NP}$ and multi-prover interactive protocols with shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vahid R. Asadi , Atsuya Hasegawa , François Le Gall

This survey provides a comprehensive examination of verifiable computing, tracing its evolution from foundational complexity theory to modern zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (ZK-SNARKs). We explore key…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Angold Wang

This paper proves that several interactive proof systems are zero-knowledge against quantum attacks. This includes a few well-known classical zero-knowledge proof systems as well as quantum interactive proof systems for the complexity class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Watrous

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

In this paper, we present a communication-free algorithm for distributed coverage of an arbitrary network by a group of mobile agents with local sensing capabilities. The network is represented as a graph, and the agents are arbitrarily…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-01 A. Yasin Yazicioglu , Magnus Egerstedt , Jeff S. Shamma

As statistical analyses become more central to science, industry and society, there is a growing need to ensure correctness of their results. Approximate correctness can be verified by replicating the entire analysis, but can we verify…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tal Herman , Guy Rothblum