A survey on exotic signatures for post-quantum blockchain: Challenges and research directions

M Buser, R Dowsley, M Esgin, C Gritti… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Blockchain technology provides efficient and secure solutions to various online activities by
utilizing a wide range of cryptographic tools. In this article, we survey the existing literature …

[PDF][PDF] Status report on the second round of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process

G Alagic, J Alperin-Sheriff, D Apon… - US Department of …, 2020 - nvlpubs.nist.gov
Abstract The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting
one or more public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public, competition-like process …

Ligero: Lightweight sublinear arguments without a trusted setup

S Ames, C Hazay, Y Ishai… - Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
We design and implement a simple zero-knowledge argument protocol for NP whose
communication complexity is proportional to the square-root of the verification circuit size …

Wolverine: fast, scalable, and communication-efficient zero-knowledge proofs for boolean and arithmetic circuits

C Weng, K Yang, J Katz, X Wang - 2021 IEEE Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs for arbitrary boolean or arithmetic circuits have recently
attracted much attention. Existing solutions suffer from either significant prover overhead (ie …

Publicly verifiable zero-knowledge and post-quantum signatures from vole-in-the-head

C Baum, L Braun, CD de Saint Guilhem… - Annual International …, 2023 - Springer
We present a new method for transforming zero-knowledge protocols in the designated
verifier setting into public-coin protocols, which can be made non-interactive and publicly …

One tree to rule them all: Optimizing ggm trees and owfs for post-quantum signatures

C Baum, W Beullens, S Mukherjee, E Orsini… - … Conference on the …, 2025 - Springer
The use of MPC-in-the-Head (MPCitH) based zero knowledge proofs of knowledge (ZKPoK)
to prove knowledge of a preimage of a one-way function (OWF) is a popular approach …

Threshold linear secret sharing to the rescue of MPC-in-the-head

T Feneuil, M Rivain - International Conference on the Theory and …, 2023 - Springer
The MPC-in-the-Head paradigm is a popular framework to build zero-knowledge proof
systems using techniques from secure multi-party computation (MPC). While this paradigm …

Limbo: efficient zero-knowledge MPCitH-based arguments

C Delpech de Saint Guilhem, E Orsini… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This work introduces a new interactive oracle proof system based on the MPC-in-the-Head
paradigm. To improve concrete efficiency and offer flexibility between computation time and …

Shared permutation for syndrome decoding: new zero-knowledge protocol and code-based signature

T Feneuil, A Joux, M Rivain - Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2023 - Springer
The threat of a coming quantum computer motivates the research for new zero-knowledge
proof techniques for (or based on) post-quantum cryptographic problems. One of the few …

Banquet: short and fast signatures from AES

C Baum, CD de Saint Guilhem, D Kales… - … Conference on Public …, 2021 - Springer
This work introduces Banquet, a digital signature scheme with post-quantum security,
constructed using only symmetric-key primitives. The design is based on the MPC-in-head …