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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

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are an emergent paradigm in verifiable computing. In the context of applications like cloud computing, ZKPs can be used by a client (called the verifier) to verify the service provider (called the prover) is in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Alhad Daftardar , Brandon Reagen , Siddharth Garg

Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non-monotonic, closed-world reasoning. One exception is the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ana Sofia Gomes , Jose Julio Alferes , Terrance Swift

We show that some problems in information security can be solved without using one-way functions. The latter are usually regarded as a central concept of cryptography, but the very existence of one-way functions depends on difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Dima Grigoriev , Vladimir Shpilrain

We investigate the existence of a class of ZFC-provably total recursive unary functions, given certain constraints, and apply some of those results to show that, for $\Sigma_1$-sound set theory, ZFC$\not\vdash P<NP$.

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 N. C. A. da Costa , F. A. Doria

Ensuring the integrity of business processes without disclosing confidential business information is a major challenge in inter-organizational processes. This paper introduces a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP)-based approach for the verifiable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jannis Kiesel , Jonathan Heiss

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

In this work, we consider the long-standing open question of constructing constant-round concurrent zero-knowledge protocols in the plain model. Resolving this question is known to require non-black-box techniques. We consider non-black-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Divya Gupta , Amit Sahai

In traditional e-voting protocols, privacy is often provided by a trusted authority that learns the votes and computes the tally. Some protocols replace the trusted authority by a set of authorities, and privacy is guaranteed if less than a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Gina Gallegos-Garcia , Vincenzo Iovino , Alfredo Rial , Peter B. Roenne , Peter Y. A. Ryan

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

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

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as an important cryptographic technique allowing one party (prover) to prove the correctness of a statement to some other party (verifier) and nothing else. ZKPs give rise to user's privacy in many…

An oblivious pseudorandom function (OPRF) is a protocol by which a client and server interact to evaluate a pseudorandom function on a key provided by the server and an input provided by the client, without divulging the key or input to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xinyuan Zhang , Anrin Chakraborti , Michael Reiter

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

In this paper we propose a definition for (honest verifier) quantum statistical zero-knowledge interactive proof systems and study the resulting complexity class, which we denote QSZK. We prove several facts regarding this class that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Watrous

Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) frameworks have the potential to revolutionize the handling of sensitive data in various domains. However, deploying ZKP frameworks with real-world data presents several challenges, including scalability,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Piergiuseppe Mallozzi

Safe derivative-free optimization under unknown constraints is a fundamental challenge in modern learning and control. Existing zeroth-order (ZO) methods typically still assume access to a first-order oracle of the constraint functions or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Runyu Zhang , Gioele Zardini , Asuman Ozdaglar , Jeff Shamma , Na Li

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

Given a Boolean function f, the (Hamming) weight wt(f) and the nonlinearity N(f) are well known to be important in designing functions that are useful in cryptography. The nonlinearity is expensive to compute, in general, so any shortcuts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Thomas W. Cusick

We establish completeness for intuitionistic first-order logic, iFOL, showing that a formula is provable if and only if its embedding into minimal logic, mFOL, is uniformly valid under the Brouwer Heyting Kolmogorov (BHK) semantics, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Robert Constable , Mark Bickford