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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

We live in an era of information and it is very important to handle the exchange of information. While sending data to an authorized source, we need to protect it from unauthorized sources, changes, and authentication. ZKP technique can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Lavish Saluja , Ashutosh Bhatia

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

With the proliferation of decentralized applications (DApps), the conflict between the transparency of blockchain technology and user data privacy has become increasingly prominent. While Decentralized Identity (DID) and Verifiable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hui Yuan

Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proof systems are cryptographic protocols that can (with overwhelming probability) demonstrate that the pair $(X, W)$ is in a relation $R$ without revealing information about the private input $W$. This membership…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Pedro Antonino , Namrata Jain

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) are protocols which construct cryptographic proofs to demonstrate knowledge of a secret input in a computation without revealing any information about the secret. ZKPs enable novel applications in private and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tarunesh Verma , Yichao Yuan , Nishil Talati , Todd Austin

We propose abstract compilation for precise static type analysis of object-oriented languages based on coinductive logic programming. Source code is translated to a logic program, then type-checking and inference problems amount to queries…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Luca Franceschini , Davide Ancona , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

This paper proposes a protocol for Proof of Assets of a bitcoin exchange using the Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (ZK-SNARK) without revealing either the bitcoin addresses of the exchange or balances…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 B Swaroopa Reddy

This paper explores how zero-knowledge proofs can enhance Bitcoin's functionality and privacy. First, we consider Proof-of-Reserve schemes: by using zk-STARKs, a custodian can prove its Bitcoin holdings are more than a predefined threshold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yusuf Ozmiş

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

Continual Structured Knowledge Reasoning (CSKR) focuses on training models to handle sequential tasks, where each task involves translating natural language questions into structured queries grounded in structured knowledge. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yongrui Chen , Yi Huang , Yunchang Liu , Shenyu Zhang , Junhao He , Tongtong Wu , Guilin Qi , Tianxing Wu

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

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as a promising solution to address the scalability challenges in modern blockchain systems. This study proposes a methodology for generating and verifying ZKPs to ensure the computational integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Anton Yezhov , Vladyslav Yusiuk , Kateryna Kuznetsova

As the demand for exercising the "right to be forgotten" grows, the need for verifiable machine unlearning has become increasingly evident to ensure both transparency and accountability. We present {\em zkUnlearner}, the first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Nan Wang , Nan Wu , Xiangyu Hui , Jiafan Wang , Xin Yuan

With the rapid development of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), particularly Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge (SNARKs), benchmarking various ZK tools has become a valuable task. ZK-friendly hash functions, as key algorithms in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Hanze Guo , Yebo Feng , Cong Wu , Zengpeng Li , Jiahua Xu

We study non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs (NIZKs) for NP satisfying: 1) statistical soundness, 2) computational zero-knowledge and 3) certified-everlasting zero-knowledge (CE-ZK). The CE-ZK property allows a verifier of a quantum proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Nikhil Pappu

In database applications involving sensitive data, the dual imperatives of data confidentiality and provable query processing are important. This paper introduces PoneglyphDB, a database system that leverages non-interactive zero-knowledge…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Binbin Gu , Juncheng Fang , Faisal Nawab

Generative AI, exemplified by models like transformers, has opened up new possibilities in various domains but also raised concerns about fairness, transparency and reliability, especially in fields like medicine and law. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

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

Zero-knowledge proofs allow verification of computations without revealing private information. However, existing systems require memory proportional to the computation size, which has historically limited use in large-scale applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Logan Nye