{zkSaaS}:{Zero-Knowledge}{SNARKs} as a Service

S Garg, A Goel, A Jain, GV Policharla… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
A decade of active research has led to practical constructions of zero-knowledge succinct
non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk-SNARKs) that are now being used in a wide …

[PDF][PDF] zk-SNARKs: A gentle introduction

A Nitulescu - Ecole Normale Superieure, 2020 - di.ens.fr
Abstract Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs)
are non-interactive systems with short proofs (ie, independent of the size of the witness) that …

Scalable zero knowledge via cycles of elliptic curves

E Ben-Sasson, A Chiesa, E Tromer, M Virza - Algorithmica, 2017 - Springer
Non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge for general NP statements are a
powerful cryptographic primitive, both in theory and in practical applications. Recently, much …

Doubly-efficient zkSNARKs without trusted setup

RS Wahby, I Tzialla, A Shelat, J Thaler… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a zero-knowledge argument for NP with low communication complexity, low
concrete cost for both the prover and the verifier, and no trusted setup, based on standard …

Prover-efficient commit-and-prove zero-knowledge SNARKs

H Lipmaa - Progress in Cryptology–AFRICACRYPT 2016: 8th …, 2016 - Springer
Zk-SNARKs (succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge) are needed
in many applications. Unfortunately, all previous zk-SNARKs for interesting languages are …

Legosnark: Modular design and composition of succinct zero-knowledge proofs

M Campanelli, D Fiore, A Querol - … of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We study the problem of building non-interactive proof systems modularly by linking small
specialized" gadget" SNARKs in a lightweight manner. Our motivation is both theoretical and …

Spartan: Efficient and general-purpose zkSNARKs without trusted setup

S Setty - Annual International Cryptology Conference, 2020 - Springer
This paper introduces Spartan, a new family of zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive
arguments of knowledge (zkSNARKs) for the rank-1 constraint satisfiability (R1CS), an NP …

zk-Bench: A Toolset for Comparative Evaluation and Performance Benchmarking of SNARKs

J Ernstberger, S Chaliasos, G Kadianakis… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2023 - eprint.iacr.org
Abstract Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), especially Succinct Non-interactive ARguments of
Knowledge (SNARKs), have garnered significant attention in modern cryptographic …

Eos: Efficient Private Delegation of {zkSNARK} Provers

A Chiesa, R Lehmkuhl, P Mishra, Y Zhang - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Succinct zero knowledge proofs (ie zkSNARKs) are powerful cryptographic tools that enable
a prover to convince a verifier that a given statement is true without revealing any additional …

Enabling zero knowledge proof by accelerating zk-SNARK kernels on GPU

N Ni, Y Zhu - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
As a recent cryptography protocol, Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of
Knowledge (zk-SNARK) allows one party to prove that it possesses certain information …