Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography PEC

Collaboration with ZKProof

NIST has collaborated with the ZKProof initiative since 2019, as a way of supporting the development of open reference material on zero-knowledge proofs. This page lists some outputs of this interaction:

News / highlights:

NIST-PEC documentation on ZKProof:

• 2020-April-17: NIST-PEC comments on the ZkpComRef 0.2
• 2019-Oct-10: NIST-PEC contributions to advance the draft ZKProof Community Reference from version 0.1 to 0.2 contributions
• 2019-April-06: NIST comments on the initial ZKProof documentation

Past ZKProof-related talks by PEC members:

• 2023-Aug-01: Educational Challenges in the Ever-Evolving Space of Zero-Knowledge. Presented at ZCon4. Barcelona, Spain. [Video]

• 2022-Nov-15: Panel: ZKProof Community Goals and Deliverables. Presented at 5th ZKProof Workshop. Tel Aviv, Israel. [Video]

• 2021-Apr-26: ZKpComRef 2021. Presented at 4th ZKProof Workshop — Home edition. Online. [Slides; Video]

• 2020-May-18: Towards Version 1.0 of the ZKProof Community Reference. Presented at 3rd ZKProof Workshop — Home edition. Online. [Slides; Video]

• 2019-Oct-10: Community reference material for zero-knowledge proofs (A brief update and a call for participation). Presented at ZKProof Community Event. Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Slides; Video]

• 2019-Aug-18: A perspective on standardization of advanced cryptography at NIST. Presented at 1^st Workshop on Advanced Cryptography Standardization (ACS'19). Santa Barbara, USA. [Slides; Video]

• 2019-Apr-11: Community Standards: a Review and Further Work on the ZKProof Track Proceedings. Presented at 2^nd Zkproof workshop. Berkeley, USA.

• 2019-Apr-11: Privacy-enhancing cryptography at NIST. Presented at 2^nd Zkproof workshop. Berkeley, USA. [Slides; Video]

(Some talks were jointly presented with other ZKProof Editors)

ZKProof Reference Material (Selected links):

• ZKProof portal for Reference Material: https://docs.zkproof.org
• Educational resources: https://docs.zkproof.org/edu
• ZKProof list of (150+) presentations: https://docs.zkproof.org/presentations
• ZKproof Community Reference (ZKpComRef): https://docs.zkproof.org/reference
  • 2022-Jul-17: Version 0.3. (Contains substantial updates about ZKP paradigms; we contributed with content and as part of the ZKProof editors team)
  • 2019-Dec-31: Version 0.2. (Includes contributions by the PEC team; one PEC team member also served as editor). See also the annotated changes and diff documents.
  • 2019-Apr-11: Version 0.1. (LaTeX porting of the files output by the 1^st ZKProof workshop)
  • See the source code on GitHub:zkpstandard/zkpreference

Other ZKP-related talks hosted by NIST, by external speakers:

• In the Special Topics of Privacy and Public Auditability (STPPA) series:
  • 2023-Jul-25: The ZKProof Process Towards Standardising Zero-Knowledge. Presented at STPPA6. Mary Maller (Ethereum Foundation and PQShield)
• NIST Crypto Reading Club talks related to ZKPs (not necessarily associated with ZKProof):
  • 2018-Nov-07: Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Recent progress and an update on the standardization effort. Muthu Venkitasubramaniam (University of Rochester)
  • 2019-Dec-18: Interactive Proofs and Zero-Knowledge. Justin Thaler (Georgetown University)
  • 2022-Jun-15: Caulk: Lookup Arguments in Sublinear Time. Mary Maller (Ethereum Foundation)