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Presentation

Ligetron: WASM as an Intermediate Representation and easy tooling for zkSNARKs

September 27, 2023

Presenters

Muthu Venkitasubramaniam - Georgetown University; Ligero Inc.

Description

Abstract. Ligetron is an efficient post-quantum sublinear non-interactive zero-knowledge system that can be deployed as a web application and scales to billions of gates.  Core to our construction is identifying a good intermediate representation, namely Web Assembly (WASM) that is: (1) versatile to represent complex computations, (2) can be compiled from most popular high-level languages, and (3) embodies rich semantics to derive space-efficiency. Ligetron can take as input an NP relations expressed as a WASM code. This allows us to easily tool new applications by coding in a high-level language such as C/C++/Rust and cross-compile to WASM using standard compilers (eg, emcripten).

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Presented at

MPTS 2023: NIST Workshop (virtual) on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2023

Event Details

Location

    Virtual

Related Topics

Security and Privacy: cryptography

Created September 21, 2023, Updated October 25, 2023