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:

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

Past talks with PEC members:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Some talks were jointly presented with other ZKProof Editors)

ZKProof Community Reference (ZkpComRef):

• 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 by external speakers:

• ZKProof list of (150+) presentations: https://docs.zkproof.org/presentations
• NIST Crypto-reading-club talks related to ZKPs (not necessarily associated with ZKProof):
  • 2018-Nov-07: Muthu Venkitasubramaniam (University of Rochester), Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Recent progress and an update on the standardization effort
  • 2019-Dec-18: Justin Thaler (Georgetown University), Interactive Proofs and Zero-Knowledge
  • 2022-Jun-15: Mary Maller (Ethereum Foundation), Caulk: Lookup Arguments in Sublinear Time