Arne Tobias Malkenes Ødegaard
Ph.D. started in: 2019
Expected year of graduation: 2022
COINS consortium member: University of Bergen
Supervised by: Helger Lipmaa, Øyvind Ytrehus
Research area: Cryptography
Project title: Post-quantum zk-SNARKs
Project description: My project will be focused on protocol design, mainly around zk-SNARKs. zk-SNARKs are short arguments which can show that someone has some private knowledge without revealing what they know. zk-SNARKs have lately found use in e-voting, verifiable computation and cryptocurrency. My project will be about finding useful usecases and create efficient protocols using zk-SNARKs. Since the standard constructions of zk-SNARKs will be broken by quantum computers, my project also consists of trying to find an approach to zk-SNARKs based on post-quantum constructions.
