NIST PQC seminar #15 (Tuesday 2024-June-18, 10am EDT)
Bros, Maxime P. (IntlAssoc)
Dear all,
I hope you're doing well.
I'm glad to announce NIST PQC Seminars # 15 which will happen at 10 a.m. US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, Washington D.C., UTC-4) on Tuesday June 18th, 2024. Please find more details below.
Please find the Zoom invitation below this email, alternatively you can click the talk's name on the NIST PQC Seminar website:
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/workshops-and-timeline/pqc-seminars
Be careful, the links / meeting ID or passcode sometimes change and sometimes remain the same from one seminar to another, so always double check on the website before connecting.
Sincerely,
Dr. Maxime Bros
NIST PQC Team
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### Title ###
Constructions for digital signatures Part II: VOLE-in-the-head and FAEST
### Abstract ###
Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Proofs are cryptographic protocols that allow a prover to show to a verifier that a certain statement is true, without giving away any additional information in the process. They are a central tool in modern cryptography, with many interesting and surprising applications. Recently, Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation(VOLE)-based ZK proof systems such as QuickSilver (Yang et al., ACM CCS 2021) and Mac'n'Cheese (Baum et al., IACR CRYPTO 2021) have shown tremendous success in efficiently proving large statements with small constant concrete overhead.
In this talk we will discuss the new VOLE-in-the-head approach (Baum et al., IACR CRYPTO 2023) to Zero-Knowledge proofs, and show how it can be used to turn the QuickSilver proof system into a digital signature scheme called FAEST. Moreover, we will discuss other instantiations of the FAEST approach based on Multivariate Quadratic Polynomials and the Rain scheme, as well as recent optimizations to VOLE-in-the-head.
### Speakers and Affiliations ###
Dr. Carsten Baum, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
### Mini bios ###
After having obtained his PhD degree from Aarhus University in 2016, Carsten was a Postdoc at Bar-Ilan University and Assistant Professor at Aarhus University before joining the Technical University of Denmark in 2022. His main research interest lies in cryptography, more specifically Multiparty Computation, Zero-Knowledge proofs and post-quantum cryptographic techniques. As part of this he recently participated in the DARPA SIEVE program, which led to a round 1 submission to the NIST call for Additional PQC Digital Signature Schemes. Carsten is also a consultant for Partisia.
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