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Financial Generative Pre-trained Transformers (FinGPT) with multimodal capabilities are now being increasingly adopted in various financial applications. However, due to the intellectual property of model weights and the copyright of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xiao-Yang Liu , Ningjie Li , Keyi Wang , Xiaoli Zhi , Weiqin Tong

Zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) are a key technology for driving the large-scale adoption of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP), but their performance bottlenecks severely limit their practicality. While current hardware acceleration…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jieran Cui , Zhengkai Wen , Haowen Fang , Yinan Zhu , Jia Xiong , Cheng Ni , Mingchi Zhang , Nan Guan , Xi Wang

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

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

The modern integrated circuit ecosystem is increasingly reliant on third-party intellectual property integration, which introduces security risks, including hardware Trojans and security vulnerabilities. Addressing the resulting trust…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sirui Shen , Zunchen Huang , Chenglu Jin

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have evolved from being a theoretical concept providing privacy and verifiability to having practical, real-world implementations, with SNARKs (Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge) emerging as one of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Stefanos Chaliasos , Jens Ernstberger , David Theodore , David Wong , Mohammad Jahanara , Benjamin Livshits

Zero-knowledge (ZK) protocols enable software developers to provide proofs of their programs' correctness to other parties without revealing the programs themselves. Regular expressions are pervasive in real-world software, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 John Kolesar , Shan Ali , Timos Antonopoulos , Ruzica Piskac

Cryptographic schemes like Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), while offering powerful privacy-preserving capabilities, are often hindered by their computational complexity. Polynomial multiplication, a core…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Rabimba Karanjai , Sangwon Shin , and Wujie Xiong , Xinxin Fan , Lin Chen , Tianwei Zhang , Taeweon Suh , Weidong Shi , Veronika Kuchta , Francesco Sica , Lei Xu

Gradient boosted decision trees, particularly XGBoost, are among the most effective methods for tabular data. As deployment in sensitive settings increases, cryptographic guarantees of model integrity become essential. We present ZKBoost,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nikolas Melissaris , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Akira Takahashi , Chenkai Weng , Jiayi Xu

In this study, we introduce a novel zero-knowledge identification scheme based on the hardness of the subgroup distance problem in the Hamming metric. The proposed protocol, named Subgroup Distance Zero Knowledge Proof (SDZKP), employs a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Cansu Betin Onur

In the thesis we focus on designing an authentication system to authenticate users over a network with a username and a password. The system uses the zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) system as a password verification mechanism. The ZKP protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Jakob Povsic , Andrej Brodnik

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) are becoming a gold standard in scaling blockchains and bringing Web3 to life. At the same time, ZKP for transactions running on the Ethereum Virtual Machine require powerful servers with hundreds of CPU cores.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Dumitrel Loghin , Shuang Liang , Shengwei Liu , Xiong Liu , Pingcheng Ruan , Zhigang Ye

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

This paper presents a new method for quantum identity authentication (QIA) protocols. The logic of classical zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) due to Schnorr is applied in quantum circuits and algorithms. This novel approach gives an exact way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Mark Carney

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 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

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

Streaming interactive proofs (SIPs) enable a space-bounded algorithm with one-pass access to a massive stream of data to verify a computation that requires large space, by communicating with a powerful but untrusted prover. This work…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Graham Cormode , Marcel Dall'Agnol , Tom Gur , Chris Hickey

Machine learning models are increasingly used in societal applications, yet legal and privacy concerns demand that they very often be kept confidential. Consequently, there is a growing distrust about the fairness properties of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chhavi Yadav , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Dan Boneh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We present the first constructions of single-prover proof systems that achieve perfect zero knowledge (PZK) for languages beyond NP, under no intractability assumptions: 1. The complexity class #P has PZK proofs in the model of Interactive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Eli Ben-Sasson , Alessandro Chiesa , Michael A. Forbes , Ariel Gabizon , Michael Riabzev , Nicholas Spooner