Hardware Acceleration for ZK-Proofs: A Speed Boost

https://investurns.com/hardware-acceleration-zk-proofs-efficiency/

#zksnarks #parallelprocessing #GPUacceleration #blockchainefficiency #FPGAacceleration #zkp #ASICforZK #Web3scaling #computationalbottlenecks #ZKSTARKs

If you're working in the e-ID space you might have heard of the "Longfellow" and "Crescent" papers, which implement zero-knowledge proofs on existing credentials. We wrote a deep-dive with @elgharee @clemhumb into these papers and compare them here:

https://eid-privacy.github.io/wp0/2025/11/28/crescent-longfellow-showdown.html

TLDR: very impressive work, but very difficult to reproduce as a normal software dev.

#EID #Swiyu #ZKP

#E_ID #ZKP Having some fun with Noir and ZKPs to prove the knowledge of ECDSA:

https://github.com/eid-privacy/noir-playground-ineiti

We're doing this in order to understand how good nowadays ZKP libraries are in bringing understandable and fast proving systems to developers!

⚠️ Does digital #ID have risks even if it’s #ZK -wrapped? https://cryptoslate.com/does-digital-id-have-risks-even-if-its-zk-wrapped/

#ZKP #privacy #identity #web3 #DID #decentralized #ZeroKnowkedgeProof #VitalikButerin #encryption #pseudonymity #DecentralizedIdentifier #DigitalIdentity

So the task is to get comfortable with zkps first then move to mpc and lastly fhe maybe
#zkp #mpc #fhe

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113924
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #ZeroKnowledge #censorship #surveillance #zkp

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Nice to have corroboration:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy

#ageVerification #censorship #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #zeroKnowledge #ZKP

A Redditor asks: “Can’t zero knowledge proof solve the privacy concerns about the UK online safety law?” – my response…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113892
#AgeVerification #MoralPanic #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #ZeroKnowledgeProof #reddit #zkp

A Redditor asks: “Can’t zero knowledge proof solve the privacy concerns about the UK online safety law?” – my response…

Hi. I love your question. For disclosure I have been working on digital civil liberties around encryption since 1991 and I have been working on age verification since 2016.

The really short version of my answer is: it would only address the problematic issues from a technological perspective, but what we really have here is a political problem.

There is this thing called Ranum’s Law, named after Marcus Ranum, an early Innovator in the space of firewalls, and he wrote that “you can’t fix social problems with software”.

Age verification is one of those technological / software fixes which say that they are doing one thing (protecting kids) whilst actually they are achieving something else (enumerating everyone who uses the web) – if you immediately fix on attempting to reduce risks of “enumeration” you end up ignoring: disenfranchisment of people who cannot age verify, political pressure to permit privacy-invading systems as well “in the name of market competition” and a race to the bottom for people’s personal data.

So ZKP is a wonderful technology when deployed in a controlled infrastructure and under centralised patch management to protect discrete and well described taxonomies of data… but it’s never going to happen in the real world because that’s not what people in power actually want. (Edit: plus: the data is a mess and there is also no taxonomy)

What they actually want is: for their friends who have been lobbying them since 2016 or earlier to get a wad of money, and for the public to be placated enough about child safety that they get reelected.

This is not a technical problem and it does not have a technical solution. What we are seeing here is the long tail of a moral panic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/1mc2m08/comment/n5qqtyy/

#ageVerification #moralPanic #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #reddit #zeroKnowledgeProof #ZKP

@ikuturso @hsl was interesting reading linked in this about Google’s counter proposal using Zero Knowledge Proof #ZKP. They’ve open sourced their implementation a few weeks ago and can anonymously verify data points like age without exchanging any other meaningful or identifying data: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/meta_google_europe_age_assurance/

Vitalik Buterin suggests that Ethereum
will be ready for the on slot of quantum computing suggesting a quantum machine could break blockchain cryptography between 2030 and 2035. The Ethereum Foundation is working to integrate zkEVM ( Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine) within layer 1, within twelve months.

https://www.cointribune.com/en/vitalik-buterin-is-convinced-ethereum-will-survive-the-quantum-era/ #Crypto #Ethereum #Buterin #CryptoSecurity #QuantumComputing #ETH #ZeroKnowledgeProofs #zkp

@rebeccawatson There actually *are* ways of performing age verification in a privacy-preserving way, thanks to zero-knowledge proof cryptography:

https://github.com/zkpassport

StRanGeLY tHoUgH, governments don't seem interested in merely knowing that a user truly is >=$some_age, and not knowing anything else about them. They really, *really* wanna know who the perverts^W adults are.

#zkp #zkproof #cryptography #cryptology

https://ia.cr/2025/1296 sounds disrupting.. looking 4 qualified opinions…

Tags to improve post exposure: #ZKP #simulator #cryptography #trustedsetup #interactive #soundness

how it started / how it's going, crypto security researcher edition

#crypto #uspol #nypol #uspolitics #infosec #cybersecurity #cryptocurrency #ZKP #JohnWoeltz

ZKPoG: We weaponized GPUs to spawn zero-knowledge proofs at RTX 4090 velocity—witnesses forged at quantum speed, privacy delivered in nanoseconds. Trust nothing, prove everything; consensus just got overclocked. 🔥🧬 #infosec #ZKP #CryptoAnarchy
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/765

The GrapheneOS Exposure
Full video: https://youtu.be/pVjoEENPhsg
#grapheneos #google #ageverification #zkp

Alright time to watch zksummit live streaming 🫡
#zkp

#zkp 不只Google Wallet，Apple Wallet在美國已有數位身分認證的實際應用案例。
在許多州（如亞利桑那州、科羅拉多州、喬治亞州、馬里蘭州、俄亥俄州等）已經允許居民將駕照或州身分證加到Apple Wallet，這些數位證件可在機場TSA安檢、購買酒類、進入有年齡限制的場所等場合用於身分驗證。
例如，加州的行動駕照（mDL）計畫已支援將駕照加到Apple Wallet，並能在機場、商店等地實際使用。
這些應用已經落地，並持續擴展到更多州份和場景。
而日本數位身分證2025年起支援Apple錢包，成美國以外首個開放國家。
那隨著臺灣數位皮夾之後上路，企業身分識別也會有新方法。
https://www.cryptocity.tw/news/zk-tech-google-wallet-digital-id

🧮 DFS: Where zkSNARKs meet their distributed destiny. New protocol drops proof gen overhead from 300GB to 500KB, makes private delegation actually usable, and fixes EOS's security holes. Privacy-preserving parallelism just got real. 🌐🔐 #ZKP #MPC

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/296