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:

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:

• 2019-04-11: Privacy-enhancing cryptography at NIST. 2^nd Zkproof workshop. Berkeley, USA. [Slides; Video]

• 2019-04-11: Community Standards: a Review and Further Work on the ZKProof Track Proceedings. 2^nd Zkproof workshop. Berkeley, USA.

• 2019-08-18: A perspective on standardization of advanced cryptography at NIST. 1^st Workshop on Advanced Cryptography Standardization (ACS'19). Santa Barbara, USA. [Video]

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

• 2020-05-18: Towards Version 1.0 of the ZKProof Community Reference. 3rd ZKProof Workshop — Home edition. Online. [Slides; Video]

• 2021-0426: ZKpComRef 2021. 4th ZKProof Workshop — Home edition. Online. [Video]

(some talks were jointly presented with the ZKProof Editors)

ZKProof Community Reference:

• Version 0.1. (LaTeX porting of the files output by the 1^st ZKProof workshop)
• 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.
• See the source code on GitHub:zkpstandard/zkpreference