Publications


  • DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System [ePrint]
    Howard Wu, Wenting Zheng, Alessandro Chiesa, Raluca A. Popa, Ion Stoica
    USENIX Security 2018 (27th USENIX Security Symposium)

  • Zero Knowledge Protocols from Succinct Constraint Detection [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Michael A. Forbes, Ariel Gabizon, Michael Riabzev, Nicholas Spooner
    TCC 2017 (15th Theory of Cryptography Conference)

  • Interactive Oracle Proofs with Constant Rate and Query Complexity [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Ariel Gabizon, Michael Riabzev, Nicholas Spooner
    ICALP 2017 (44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming)

  • Decentralized Anonymous Micropayments [ePrint]
    Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew D. Green, Jingcheng Liu, Ian Miers, Peihan Miao, Pratyush Mishra
    EUROCRYPT 2017 (36th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques)

  • Interactive Oracle Proofs [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Nicholas Spooner
    TCC 2016-B (14th Theory of Cryptography Conference)

  • PhotoProof: cryptographic image authentication for any set of permissible transformations
    Assa Naveh, Eran Tromer
    S&P 2016 (37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

  • Quasilinear-Size Zero Knowledge from Linear-Algebraic PCPs [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Ariel Gabizon, Madars Virza
    TCC 2016-A (13th Theory of Cryptography Conference)

  • Secure Sampling of Public Parameters for Succinct Zero Knowledge Proofs
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Matthew Green, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
    S&P 2015 (36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

  • Cluster Computing in Zero Knowledge [ePrint]
    Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
    EUROCRYPT 2015 (34th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques)

  • Scalable Zero Knowledge via Cycles of Elliptic Curves [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
    CRYPTO 2014 (34th IACR International Cryptology Conference)

  • Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [project website]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
    S&P 2014 (35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy)

  • Succinct Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge for a von Neumann Architecture [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
    Security 2014 (23rd USENIX Security Symposium)

  • SNARKs for C: Verifying Program Executions Succinctly and in Zero Knowledge [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Daniel Genkin, Eran Tromer, Madars Virza
    CRYPTO 2013 (33rd IACR International Cryptology Conference)

  • On the Concrete Efficiency of Probabilistically-Checkable Proofs [ECCC]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Daniel Genkin, Eran Tromer
    STOC 2013 (45th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing)

  • Fast Reductions from RAMs to Delegatable Succinct Constraint Satisfaction Problems [ePrint]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Alessandro Chiesa, Daniel Genkin, Eran Tromer
    ITCS 2013 (4th Symposium on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science)

  • Enforcing Language Semantics Using Proof-Carrying Data [ePrint]
    Stephen Chong, Eran Tromer, Jeffrey A. Vaughan
    Crypto ePrint 2013/513

  • Constant Rate PCPs for Circuit-SAT with Sublinear Query Complexity [ECCC]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Yohay Kaplan, Swastik Kopparty, Or Meir, with an appendix by Henning Stichtenoth
    FOCS 2013 (54th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science)

  • Recursive Composition and Bootstrapping for SNARKs and Proof-Carrying Data [ePrint]
    Nir Bitansky, Ran Canetti, Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer
    STOC 2013 (45th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing)

  • Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments via Linear Interactive Proofs [ePrint]
    Nir Bitansky, Alessandro Chiesa, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky, Omer Paneth
    TCC 2013 (10th Theory of Cryptography Conference)

  • Proof-carrying data: Secure computation on untrusted platforms [pdf] [html]
    Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer
    The Next Wave, vol. 19 no. 2, NSA, 2012

  • Succinct Arguments from Multi-Prover Interactive Proofs and their Efficiency Benefits [ePrint]
    Nir Bitansky, Alessandro Chiesa
    CRYPTO 2012 (32nd International Cryptology Conference)

  • From Extractable Collision Resistance to Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge, and Back Again [ePrint]
    Nir Bitansky, Ran Canetti, Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer
    ITCS 2012 (3rd Symposium on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science)

  • Proof-Carrying Data and Hearsay Arguments from Signature Cards [html]
    Alessandro Chiesa, Eran Tromer
    ICS 2010 (1st Symposium on Innovations in Computer Science)

  • Short PCPs Verifiable in Polylogarithmic Time [html]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Oded Goldreich, Prahladh Harsha, Madhu Sudan, Salil Vadhan
    CCC 2005 (20th IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity)

  • Short PCPs with Polylog Query Complexity [pdf]
    Eli Ben-Sasson, Madhu Sudan
    STOC 2005 (37th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing)