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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

Large language models are often adapted through parameter efficient fine tuning, but current release practices provide weak assurances about what data were used and how updates were computed. We present Verifiable Fine Tuning, a protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hasan Akgul , Daniel Borg , Arta Berisha , Amina Rahimova , Andrej Novak , Mila Petrov

Today, digital identity management for individuals is either inconvenient and error-prone or creates undesirable lock-in effects and violates privacy and security expectations. These shortcomings inhibit the digital transformation in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Matthias Babel , Johannes Sedlmeir

Differential privacy is a promising approach to privacy preserving data analysis with a well-developed theory for functions. Despite recent work on implementing systems that aim to provide differential privacy, the problem of formally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-17 Michael Carl Tschantz , Dilsun Kaynar , Anupam Datta

In decentralized web applications, users face an inherent conflict between public verifiability and personal privacy. To participate in regulated on-chain services, users must currently disclose sensitive identity documents to centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Supriya Khadka , Sanchari Das

Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Identity from trusted public certificates (e.g., national identity cards and/or ePassports; eSIM) is introduced here to permissionless blockchains in order to remove the inefficiencies of Sybil-resistant mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 David Cerezo Sánchez

We propose a middleware solution designed to facilitate seamless integration of privacy using zero-knowledge proofs within various multi-chain protocols, encompassing domains such as DeFi, gaming, social networks, DAOs, e-commerce, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Amit Chaudhary

Post-quantum signature schemes impose kilobyte-scale on-chain artifacts. Verifying them inside ZK circuits merely relocates the cost via expensive lattice arithmetic in prover circuits. We present ZK-ACE (Zero-Knowledge Authorization for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jian Sheng Wang

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are the cornerstone of programmable cryptography. They enable (1) privacy-preserving and verifiable computation across blockchains, and (2) an expanding range of off-chain applications such as credential…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Thomas Gassmann , Stefanos Chaliasos , Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Zhendong Su

Mounting privacy legislation calls for the preservation of privacy in speech technology, though solutions are gravely lacking. While evaluation campaigns are long-proven tools to drive progress, the need to consider a privacy adversary…

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

We propose CheckDP, the first automated and integrated approach for proving or disproving claims that a mechanism is differentially private. CheckDP can find counterexamples for mechanisms with subtle bugs for which prior counterexample…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Yuxin Wang , Zeyu Ding , Daniel Kifer , Danfeng Zhang

Authorship obfuscation techniques hold the promise of helping people protect their privacy in online communications by automatically rewriting text to hide the identity of the original author. However, obfuscation has been evaluated in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Calvin Bao , Marine Carpuat

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

In recent years, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in high-stakes domains such as molecular science. However, challenges related to the verifiability and structural privacy of its outputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Fei Lin , Tengchao Zhang , Ziyang Gong , Fei-Yue Wang

Ensuring correctness is crucial for code generation. Formal verification offers a definitive assurance of correctness, but demands substantial human effort in proof construction and hence raises a pressing need for automation. The primary…

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple participants to collaboratively train machine learning models while ensuring their data remains private and secure. Blockchain technology further enhances FL by providing stronger security, a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Tianxing Fu , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Zi Wang

How someone can get health insurance without sharing his health information? How you can get a loan without disclosing your credit score? There is a method to certify certain attributes of various data, either this is health metrics or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Stavros Kassaras , Leandros Maglaras

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 a proof of knowledge (PoK), a verifier becomes convinced that a prover possesses privileged information. In combination with zero-knowledge proof systems, PoKs play an important role in security protocols such as in digital signatures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Anne Broadbent , Alex B. Grilo , Nagisa Hara , Arthur Mehta