Do You Need a Zero Knowledge Proof?

J Ernstberger, S Chaliasos, L Zhou… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
Abstract Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), a cryptographic tool known for decades, have
gained significant attention in recent years due to advancements that have made them …

SoK: What don't we know? Understanding Security Vulnerabilities in SNARKs

S Chaliasos, J Ernstberger, D Theodore… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have evolved from being a theoretical concept providing
privacy and verifiability to having practical, real-world implementations, with SNARKs …

Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets

W Wang, L Zhou, A Yaish, F Zhang, B Fisch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In ZK-Rollups, provers spend significant computational resources to generate validity proofs.
Their costs should be compensated properly, so a sustainable prover market can form over …

Zero-Knowledge Location Privacy via Accurate Floating Point SNARKs

J Ernstberger, C Zhang, L Ciprian, P Jovanovic… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces Zero-Knowledge Location Privacy (ZKLP), enabling users to prove to
third parties that they are within a specified geographical region while not disclosing their …

How to Make Rational Arguments Practical and Extractable

M Campanelli, C Ganesh, R Gennaro - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2023 - eprint.iacr.org
We investigate proof systems where security holds against rational parties instead of
malicious ones. Our starting point is the notion of rational arguments, a variant of rational …

Analyzing and Benchmarking ZK-Rollups

S Chaliasos, I Reif, A Torralba-Agell… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
As blockchain technology continues to transform the realm of digital transactions, scalability
has emerged as a critical issue. This challenge has spurred the creation of innovative …

Multilayer Environment and Toolchain for Holistic NetwOrk Design and Analysis

F Rezabek, K Glas, R Von Seck, A Aroua… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The recent developments and research in distributed ledger technologies and blockchain
have contributed to the increasing adoption of distributed systems. To collect relevant …

Assessing RISC Zero using ZKit: An Extensible Testing and Benchmarking Suite for ZKP Frameworks

R Bögli - 2024 - eprints.ost.ch
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are cryptographic protocols designed to verify a statement
without disclosing any information beyond its boolean verification outcome. A prevalent use …

Origo: Proving provenance of sensitive data with constant communication

J Ernstberger, J Lauinger, Y Wu, A Gervais… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
Abstract Transport Layer Security (TLS) is foundational for safeguarding client-server
communication. However, it does not extend integrity guarantees to third-party verification of …

Evaluating the Efficiency of zk-SNARK, zk-STARK, and Bulletproof in Real-World Scenarios: A Benchmark Study

M El-Hajj, BO Roelink - 2024 - preprints.org
This study builds on our previous Systematic Literature Review (SLR) that assessed the
applications and performance of zk-SNARK, zk-STARK, and Bulletproof Non-Interactive …