US Patent Issued on May 12 for "Verifier generated common reference string for zero-knowledge proofs" (Canadian, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,505, issued on May 12.

"Verifier generated common reference string for zero-knowledge proofs" was invented by Samuel Ranellucci (Montreal) and Iftach Haitner (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A verifier node may generate a common reference string (CRS) using a random value. The verifier node may transmit a message including the CRS to a prover node. The prover node may execute a zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) using the CRS and transmit, to the verifier node, a commitment of an output of the ZKP. The commitment of the output may be configured to hide the ...