--- _id: '14428' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Suppose we have two hash functions h1 and h2, but we trust the security of only one of them. To mitigate this worry, we wish to build a hash combiner Ch1,h2 which is secure so long as one of the underlying hash functions is. This question has been well-studied in the regime of collision resistance. In this case, concatenating the two hash function outputs clearly works. Unfortunately, a long series of works (Boneh and Boyen, CRYPTO’06; Pietrzak, Eurocrypt’07; Pietrzak, CRYPTO’08) showed no (noticeably) shorter combiner for collision resistance is possible.\r\nIn this work, we revisit this pessimistic state of affairs, motivated by the observation that collision-resistance is insufficient for many interesting applications of cryptographic hash functions anyway. We argue the right formulation of the “hash combiner” is to build what we call random oracle (RO) combiners, utilizing stronger assumptions for stronger constructions.\r\nIndeed, we circumvent the previous lower bounds for collision resistance by constructing a simple length-preserving RO combiner C˜h1,h2Z1,Z2(M)=h1(M,Z1)⊕h2(M,Z2),where Z1,Z2\r\n are random salts of appropriate length. We show that this extra randomness is necessary for RO combiners, and indeed our construction is somewhat tight with this lower bound.\r\nOn the negative side, we show that one cannot generically apply the composition theorem to further replace “monolithic” hash functions h1 and h2 by some simpler indifferentiable construction (such as the Merkle-Damgård transformation) from smaller components, such as fixed-length compression functions. Finally, despite this issue, we directly prove collision resistance of the Merkle-Damgård variant of our combiner, where h1 and h2 are replaced by iterative Merkle-Damgård hashes applied to a fixed-length compression function. Thus, we can still subvert the concatenation barrier for collision-resistance combiners while utilizing practically small fixed-length components underneath." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Yevgeniy full_name: Dodis, Yevgeniy last_name: Dodis - first_name: Niels full_name: Ferguson, Niels last_name: Ferguson - first_name: Eli full_name: Goldin, Eli last_name: Goldin - first_name: Peter full_name: Hall, Peter last_name: Hall - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 citation: ama: 'Dodis Y, Ferguson N, Goldin E, Hall P, Pietrzak KZ. Random oracle combiners: Breaking the concatenation barrier for collision-resistance. In: 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference. Vol 14082. Springer Nature; 2023:514-546. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-38545-2_17' apa: 'Dodis, Y., Ferguson, N., Goldin, E., Hall, P., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2023). Random oracle combiners: Breaking the concatenation barrier for collision-resistance. In 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference (Vol. 14082, pp. 514–546). Santa Barbara, CA, United States: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38545-2_17' chicago: 'Dodis, Yevgeniy, Niels Ferguson, Eli Goldin, Peter Hall, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “Random Oracle Combiners: Breaking the Concatenation Barrier for Collision-Resistance.” In 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, 14082:514–46. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38545-2_17.' ieee: 'Y. Dodis, N. Ferguson, E. Goldin, P. Hall, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Random oracle combiners: Breaking the concatenation barrier for collision-resistance,” in 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 2023, vol. 14082, pp. 514–546.' ista: 'Dodis Y, Ferguson N, Goldin E, Hall P, Pietrzak KZ. 2023. Random oracle combiners: Breaking the concatenation barrier for collision-resistance. 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO: Advances in Cryptology, LNCS, vol. 14082, 514–546.' mla: 'Dodis, Yevgeniy, et al. “Random Oracle Combiners: Breaking the Concatenation Barrier for Collision-Resistance.” 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, vol. 14082, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 514–46, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-38545-2_17.' short: Y. Dodis, N. Ferguson, E. Goldin, P. Hall, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 514–546. conference: end_date: 2023-08-24 location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States name: 'CRYPTO: Advances in Cryptology' start_date: 2023-08-20 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-10-15T22:01:11Z date_published: 2023-08-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:06:18Z day: '09' department: - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38545-2_17 external_id: isi: - '001314616100017' intvolume: ' 14082' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1041 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 514-546 publication: 43rd Annual International Cryptology Conference publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031385445' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Random oracle combiners: Breaking the concatenation barrier for collision-resistance' type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14082 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14454' abstract: - lang: eng text: As AI and machine-learned software are used increasingly for making decisions that affect humans, it is imperative that they remain fair and unbiased in their decisions. To complement design-time bias mitigation measures, runtime verification techniques have been introduced recently to monitor the algorithmic fairness of deployed systems. Previous monitoring techniques assume full observability of the states of the (unknown) monitored system. Moreover, they can monitor only fairness properties that are specified as arithmetic expressions over the probabilities of different events. In this work, we extend fairness monitoring to systems modeled as partially observed Markov chains (POMC), and to specifications containing arithmetic expressions over the expected values of numerical functions on event sequences. The only assumptions we make are that the underlying POMC is aperiodic and starts in the stationary distribution, with a bound on its mixing time being known. These assumptions enable us to estimate a given property for the entire distribution of possible executions of the monitored POMC, by observing only a single execution. Our monitors observe a long run of the system and, after each new observation, output updated PAC-estimates of how fair or biased the system is. The monitors are computationally lightweight and, using a prototype implementation, we demonstrate their effectiveness on several real-world examples. acknowledgement: 'This work is supported by the European Research Council under Grant No.: ERC-2020-AdG 101020093.' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Konstantin full_name: Kueffner, Konstantin id: 8121a2d0-dc85-11ea-9058-af578f3b4515 last_name: Kueffner orcid: 0000-0001-8974-2542 - first_name: Kaushik full_name: Mallik, Kaushik id: 0834ff3c-6d72-11ec-94e0-b5b0a4fb8598 last_name: Mallik orcid: 0000-0001-9864-7475 citation: ama: 'Henzinger TA, Kueffner K, Mallik K. Monitoring algorithmic fairness under partial observations. In: 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification. Vol 14245. Springer Nature; 2023:291-311. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-44267-4_15' apa: 'Henzinger, T. A., Kueffner, K., & Mallik, K. (2023). Monitoring algorithmic fairness under partial observations. In 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification (Vol. 14245, pp. 291–311). Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44267-4_15' chicago: Henzinger, Thomas A, Konstantin Kueffner, and Kaushik Mallik. “Monitoring Algorithmic Fairness under Partial Observations.” In 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification, 14245:291–311. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44267-4_15. ieee: T. A. Henzinger, K. Kueffner, and K. Mallik, “Monitoring algorithmic fairness under partial observations,” in 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2023, vol. 14245, pp. 291–311. ista: 'Henzinger TA, Kueffner K, Mallik K. 2023. Monitoring algorithmic fairness under partial observations. 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification. RV: Conference on Runtime Verification, LNCS, vol. 14245, 291–311.' mla: Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Monitoring Algorithmic Fairness under Partial Observations.” 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification, vol. 14245, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 291–311, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-44267-4_15. short: T.A. Henzinger, K. Kueffner, K. Mallik, in:, 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 291–311. conference: end_date: 2023-10-06 location: Thessaloniki, Greece name: 'RV: Conference on Runtime Verification' start_date: 2023-10-03 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-10-29T23:01:15Z date_published: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-04-14T07:55:55Z day: '01' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-44267-4_15 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2308.00341' intvolume: ' 14245' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.00341 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 291-311 project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software publication: 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031442667' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Monitoring algorithmic fairness under partial observations type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 14245 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14456' abstract: - lang: eng text: In this paper, we present novel algorithms that efficiently compute a shortest reconfiguration sequence between two given dominating sets in trees and interval graphs under the TOKEN SLIDING model. In this problem, a graph is provided along with its two dominating sets, which can be imagined as tokens placed on vertices. The objective is to find a shortest sequence of dominating sets that transforms one set into the other, with each set in the sequence resulting from sliding a single token in the previous set. While identifying any sequence has been well studied, our work presents the first polynomial algorithms for this optimization variant in the context of dominating sets. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Jan Matyáš full_name: Křišťan, Jan Matyáš last_name: Křišťan - first_name: Jakub full_name: Svoboda, Jakub id: 130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425 last_name: Svoboda orcid: 0000-0002-1419-3267 citation: ama: 'Křišťan JM, Svoboda J. Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding. In: 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory. Vol 14292. Springer Nature; 2023:333-347. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24' apa: 'Křišťan, J. M., & Svoboda, J. (2023). Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding. In 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory (Vol. 14292, pp. 333–347). Trier, Germany: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24' chicago: Křišťan, Jan Matyáš, and Jakub Svoboda. “Shortest Dominating Set Reconfiguration under Token Sliding.” In 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, 14292:333–47. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24. ieee: J. M. Křišťan and J. Svoboda, “Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding,” in 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Trier, Germany, 2023, vol. 14292, pp. 333–347. ista: 'Křišťan JM, Svoboda J. 2023. Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding. 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory. FCT: Fundamentals of Computation Theory, LNCS, vol. 14292, 333–347.' mla: Křišťan, Jan Matyáš, and Jakub Svoboda. “Shortest Dominating Set Reconfiguration under Token Sliding.” 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, vol. 14292, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 333–47, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24. short: J.M. Křišťan, J. Svoboda, in:, 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 333–347. conference: end_date: 2023-09-21 location: Trier, Germany name: 'FCT: Fundamentals of Computation Theory' start_date: 2023-09-18 date_created: 2023-10-29T23:01:16Z date_published: 2023-09-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:07:40Z day: '21' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_24 external_id: arxiv: - '2307.10847' isi: - '001162288800024' intvolume: ' 14292' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.10847 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 333-347 publication: 24th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031435867' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - relation: erratum url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43587-4_31 scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Shortest dominating set reconfiguration under token sliding type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14292 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14457' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Threshold secret sharing allows a dealer to split a secret s into n shares, such that any t shares allow for reconstructing s, but no t-1 shares reveal any information about s. Leakage-resilient secret sharing requires that the secret remains hidden, even when an adversary additionally obtains a limited amount of leakage from every share. Benhamouda et al. (CRYPTO’18) proved that Shamir’s secret sharing scheme is one bit leakage-resilient for reconstruction threshold t≥0.85n and conjectured that the same holds for t = c.n for any constant 0≤c≤1. Nielsen and Simkin (EUROCRYPT’20) showed that this is the best one can hope for by proving that Shamir’s scheme is not secure against one-bit leakage when t0c.n/log(n).\r\nIn this work, we strengthen the lower bound of Nielsen and Simkin. We consider noisy leakage-resilience, where a random subset of leakages is replaced by uniformly random noise. We prove a lower bound for Shamir’s secret sharing, similar to that of Nielsen and Simkin, which holds even when a constant fraction of leakages is replaced by random noise. To this end, we first prove a lower bound on the share size of any noisy-leakage-resilient sharing scheme. We then use this lower bound to show that there exist universal constants c1, c2, such that for sufficiently large n it holds that Shamir’s secret sharing scheme is not noisy-leakage-resilient for t≤c1.n/log(n), even when a c2 fraction of leakages are replaced by random noise.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n" alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Charlotte full_name: Hoffmann, Charlotte id: 0f78d746-dc7d-11ea-9b2f-83f92091afe7 last_name: Hoffmann orcid: 0000-0003-2027-5549 - first_name: Mark full_name: Simkin, Mark last_name: Simkin citation: ama: 'Hoffmann C, Simkin M. Stronger lower bounds for leakage-resilient secret sharing. In: 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America. Vol 14168. Springer Nature; 2023:215-228. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-44469-2_11' apa: 'Hoffmann, C., & Simkin, M. (2023). Stronger lower bounds for leakage-resilient secret sharing. In 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America (Vol. 14168, pp. 215–228). Quito, Ecuador: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44469-2_11' chicago: Hoffmann, Charlotte, and Mark Simkin. “Stronger Lower Bounds for Leakage-Resilient Secret Sharing.” In 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, 14168:215–28. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44469-2_11. ieee: C. Hoffmann and M. Simkin, “Stronger lower bounds for leakage-resilient secret sharing,” in 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, Quito, Ecuador, 2023, vol. 14168, pp. 215–228. ista: 'Hoffmann C, Simkin M. 2023. Stronger lower bounds for leakage-resilient secret sharing. 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America. LATINCRYPT: Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, LNCS, vol. 14168, 215–228.' mla: Hoffmann, Charlotte, and Mark Simkin. “Stronger Lower Bounds for Leakage-Resilient Secret Sharing.” 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, vol. 14168, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 215–28, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-44469-2_11. short: C. Hoffmann, M. Simkin, in:, 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 215–228. conference: end_date: 2023-10-06 location: Quito, Ecuador name: 'LATINCRYPT: Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America' start_date: 2023-10-03 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-10-29T23:01:16Z date_published: 2023-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:09:21Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-44469-2_11 external_id: isi: - '001157041900011' intvolume: ' 14168' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1017 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 215-228 publication: 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031444685' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Stronger lower bounds for leakage-resilient secret sharing type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14168 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14559' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the problem of learning control policies in discrete-time stochastic systems which guarantee that the system stabilizes within some specified stabilization region with probability 1. Our approach is based on the novel notion of stabilizing ranking supermartingales (sRSMs) that we introduce in this work. Our sRSMs overcome the limitation of methods proposed in previous works whose applicability is restricted to systems in which the stabilizing region cannot be left once entered under any control policy. We present a learning procedure that learns a control policy together with an sRSM that formally certifies probability 1 stability, both learned as neural networks. We show that this procedure can also be adapted to formally verifying that, under a given Lipschitz continuous control policy, the stochastic system stabilizes within some stabilizing region with probability 1. Our experimental evaluation shows that our learning procedure can successfully learn provably stabilizing policies in practice. acknowledgement: This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Matin full_name: Ansaripour, Matin last_name: Ansaripour - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Mathias full_name: Lechner, Mathias id: 3DC22916-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lechner - first_name: Dorde full_name: Zikelic, Dorde id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zikelic orcid: 0000-0002-4681-1699 citation: ama: 'Ansaripour M, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Lechner M, Zikelic D. Learning provably stabilizing neural controllers for discrete-time stochastic systems. In: 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. Vol 14215. Springer Nature; 2023:357-379. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-45329-8_17' apa: 'Ansaripour, M., Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Lechner, M., & Zikelic, D. (2023). Learning provably stabilizing neural controllers for discrete-time stochastic systems. In 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (Vol. 14215, pp. 357–379). Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45329-8_17' chicago: Ansaripour, Matin, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A Henzinger, Mathias Lechner, and Dorde Zikelic. “Learning Provably Stabilizing Neural Controllers for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems.” In 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, 14215:357–79. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45329-8_17. ieee: M. Ansaripour, K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, and D. Zikelic, “Learning provably stabilizing neural controllers for discrete-time stochastic systems,” in 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, vol. 14215, pp. 357–379. ista: 'Ansaripour M, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Lechner M, Zikelic D. 2023. Learning provably stabilizing neural controllers for discrete-time stochastic systems. 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, LNCS, vol. 14215, 357–379.' mla: Ansaripour, Matin, et al. “Learning Provably Stabilizing Neural Controllers for Discrete-Time Stochastic Systems.” 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, vol. 14215, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 357–79, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-45329-8_17. short: M. Ansaripour, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 357–379. conference: end_date: 2023-10-27 location: Singapore, Singapore name: 'ATVA: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis' start_date: 2023-10-24 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-11-19T23:00:56Z date_published: 2023-10-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:20:26Z day: '22' department: - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45329-8_17 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2210.05304' isi: - '001456127300017' intvolume: ' 14215' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: ' https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.05304' month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 357-379 project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication: 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031453281' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Learning provably stabilizing neural controllers for discrete-time stochastic systems type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14215 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14691' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Continuous Group-Key Agreement (CGKA) allows a group of users to maintain a shared key. It is the fundamental cryptographic primitive underlying group messaging schemes and related protocols, most notably TreeKEM, the underlying key agreement protocol of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, a standard for group messaging by the IETF. CKGA works in an asynchronous setting where parties only occasionally must come online, and their messages are relayed by an untrusted server. The most expensive operation provided by CKGA is that which allows for a user to refresh their key material in order to achieve forward secrecy (old messages are secure when a user is compromised) and post-compromise security (users can heal from compromise). One caveat of early CGKA protocols is that these update operations had to be performed sequentially, with any user wanting to update their key material having had to receive and process all previous updates. Late versions of TreeKEM do allow for concurrent updates at the cost of a communication overhead per update message that is linear in the number of updating parties. This was shown to be indeed necessary when achieving PCS in just two rounds of communication by [Bienstock et al. TCC’20].\r\nThe recently proposed protocol CoCoA [Alwen et al. Eurocrypt’22], however, shows that this overhead can be reduced if PCS requirements are relaxed, and only a logarithmic number of rounds is required. The natural question, thus, is whether CoCoA is optimal in this setting.\r\nIn this work we answer this question, providing a lower bound on the cost (concretely, the amount of data to be uploaded to the server) for CGKA protocols that heal in an arbitrary k number of rounds, that shows that CoCoA is very close to optimal. Additionally, we extend CoCoA to heal in an arbitrary number of rounds, and propose a modification of it, with a reduced communication cost for certain k.\r\nWe prove our bound in a combinatorial setting where the state of the protocol progresses in rounds, and the state of the protocol in each round is captured by a set system, each set specifying a set of users who share a secret key. We show this combinatorial model is equivalent to a symbolic model capturing building blocks including PRFs and public-key encryption, related to the one used by Bienstock et al.\r\nOur lower bound is of order k•n1+1/(k-1)/log(k), where 2≤k≤log(n) is the number of updates per user the protocol requires to heal. This generalizes the n2 bound for k=2 from Bienstock et al.. This bound almost matches the k⋅n1+2/(k-1) or k2⋅n1+1/(k-1) efficiency we get for the variants of the CoCoA protocol also introduced in this paper." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Benedikt full_name: Auerbach, Benedikt id: D33D2B18-E445-11E9-ABB7-15F4E5697425 last_name: Auerbach orcid: 0000-0002-7553-6606 - first_name: Miguel full_name: Cueto Noval, Miguel id: ffc563a3-f6e0-11ea-865d-e3cce03d17cc last_name: Cueto Noval orcid: 0000-0002-2505-4246 - first_name: Guillermo full_name: Pascual Perez, Guillermo id: 2D7ABD02-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pascual Perez orcid: 0000-0001-8630-415X - first_name: Krzysztof Z full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pietrzak orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654 citation: ama: 'Auerbach B, Cueto Noval M, Pascual Perez G, Pietrzak KZ. On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement. In: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. Vol 14371. Springer Nature; 2023:271-300. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10' apa: 'Auerbach, B., Cueto Noval, M., Pascual Perez, G., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2023). On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement. In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography (Vol. 14371, pp. 271–300). Taipei, Taiwan: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10' chicago: Auerbach, Benedikt, Miguel Cueto Noval, Guillermo Pascual Perez, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “On the Cost of Post-Compromise Security in Concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement.” In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, 14371:271–300. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10. ieee: B. Auerbach, M. Cueto Noval, G. Pascual Perez, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement,” in 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, vol. 14371, pp. 271–300. ista: 'Auerbach B, Cueto Noval M, Pascual Perez G, Pietrzak KZ. 2023. On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement. 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. TCC: Theory of Cryptography, LNCS, vol. 14371, 271–300.' mla: Auerbach, Benedikt, et al. “On the Cost of Post-Compromise Security in Concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement.” 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, vol. 14371, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 271–300, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10. short: B. Auerbach, M. Cueto Noval, G. Pascual Perez, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 271–300. conference: end_date: 2023-12-02 location: Taipei, Taiwan name: 'TCC: Theory of Cryptography' start_date: 2023-11-29 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-12-17T23:00:53Z date_published: 2023-11-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T13:42:16Z day: '27' department: - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_10 external_id: isi: - '001160724400010' intvolume: ' 14371' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1123 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 271-300 publication: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031486203' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On the cost of post-compromise security in concurrent Continuous Group-Key Agreement type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14371 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14692' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The generic-group model (GGM) aims to capture algorithms working over groups of prime order that only rely on the group operation, but do not exploit any additional structure given by the concrete implementation of the group. In it, it is possible to prove information-theoretic lower bounds on the hardness of problems like the discrete logarithm (DL) or computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH). Thus, since its introduction, it has served as a valuable tool to assess the concrete security provided by cryptographic schemes based on such problems. A work on the related algebraic-group model (AGM) introduced a method, used by many subsequent works, to adapt GGM lower bounds for one problem to another, by means of conceptually simple reductions.\r\nIn this work, we propose an alternative approach to extend GGM bounds from one problem to another. Following an idea by Yun [EC15], we show that, in the GGM, the security of a large class of problems can be reduced to that of geometric search-problems. By reducing the security of the resulting geometric-search problems to variants of the search-by-hypersurface problem, for which information theoretic lower bounds exist, we give alternative proofs of several results that used the AGM approach.\r\nThe main advantage of our approach is that our reduction from geometric search-problems works, as well, for the GGM with preprocessing (more precisely the bit-fixing GGM introduced by Coretti, Dodis and Guo [Crypto18]). As a consequence, this opens up the possibility of transferring preprocessing GGM bounds from one problem to another, also by means of simple reductions. Concretely, we prove novel preprocessing bounds on the hardness of the d-strong discrete logarithm, the d-strong Diffie-Hellman inversion, and multi-instance CDH problems, as well as a large class of Uber assumptions. Additionally, our approach applies to Shoup’s GGM without additional restrictions on the query behavior of the adversary, while the recent works of Zhang, Zhou, and Katz [AC22] and Zhandry [Crypto22] highlight that this is not the case for the AGM approach." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Benedikt full_name: Auerbach, Benedikt id: D33D2B18-E445-11E9-ABB7-15F4E5697425 last_name: Auerbach orcid: 0000-0002-7553-6606 - first_name: Charlotte full_name: Hoffmann, Charlotte id: 0f78d746-dc7d-11ea-9b2f-83f92091afe7 last_name: Hoffmann orcid: 0000-0003-2027-5549 - first_name: Guillermo full_name: Pascual Perez, Guillermo id: 2D7ABD02-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pascual Perez orcid: 0000-0001-8630-415X citation: ama: 'Auerbach B, Hoffmann C, Pascual Perez G. Generic-group lower bounds via reductions between geometric-search problems: With and without preprocessing. In: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. Vol 14371. Springer Nature; 2023:301-330. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_11' apa: 'Auerbach, B., Hoffmann, C., & Pascual Perez, G. (2023). Generic-group lower bounds via reductions between geometric-search problems: With and without preprocessing. In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography (Vol. 14371, pp. 301–330). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_11' chicago: 'Auerbach, Benedikt, Charlotte Hoffmann, and Guillermo Pascual Perez. “Generic-Group Lower Bounds via Reductions between Geometric-Search Problems: With and without Preprocessing.” In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, 14371:301–30. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_11.' ieee: 'B. Auerbach, C. Hoffmann, and G. Pascual Perez, “Generic-group lower bounds via reductions between geometric-search problems: With and without preprocessing,” in 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, 2023, vol. 14371, pp. 301–330.' ista: 'Auerbach B, Hoffmann C, Pascual Perez G. 2023. Generic-group lower bounds via reductions between geometric-search problems: With and without preprocessing. 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. , LNCS, vol. 14371, 301–330.' mla: 'Auerbach, Benedikt, et al. “Generic-Group Lower Bounds via Reductions between Geometric-Search Problems: With and without Preprocessing.” 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, vol. 14371, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 301–30, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_11.' short: B. Auerbach, C. Hoffmann, G. Pascual Perez, in:, 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 301–330. corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-12-17T23:00:54Z date_published: 2023-11-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T14:02:04Z day: '27' department: - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-48621-0_11 external_id: isi: - '001160724400011' intvolume: ' 14371' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/808 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 301-330 publication: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031486203' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Generic-group lower bounds via reductions between geometric-search problems: With and without preprocessing' type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14371 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14693' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Lucas sequences are constant-recursive integer sequences with a long history of applications in cryptography, both in the design of cryptographic schemes and cryptanalysis. In this work, we study the sequential hardness of computing Lucas sequences over an RSA modulus.\r\nFirst, we show that modular Lucas sequences are at least as sequentially hard as the classical delay function given by iterated modular squaring proposed by Rivest, Shamir, and Wagner (MIT Tech. Rep. 1996) in the context of time-lock puzzles. Moreover, there is no obvious reduction in the other direction, which suggests that the assumption of sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences is strictly weaker than that of iterated modular squaring. In other words, the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences might hold even in the case of an algorithmic improvement violating the sequential hardness of iterated modular squaring.\r\nSecond, we demonstrate the feasibility of constructing practically-efficient verifiable delay functions based on the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences. Our construction builds on the work of Pietrzak (ITCS 2019) by leveraging the intrinsic connection between the problem of computing modular Lucas sequences and exponentiation in an appropriate extension field." acknowledgement: "Home Theory of Cryptography Conference paper\r\n(Verifiable) Delay Functions from Lucas Sequences\r\nDownload book PDF\r\nDownload book EPUB\r\nSimilar content being viewed by others\r\n\r\nSlider with three content items shown per slide. 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In this work, we study the sequential hardness of computing Lucas sequences over an RSA modulus.\r\n\r\nFirst, we show that modular Lucas sequences are at least as sequentially hard as the classical delay function given by iterated modular squaring proposed by Rivest, Shamir, and Wagner (MIT Tech. Rep. 1996) in the context of time-lock puzzles. Moreover, there is no obvious reduction in the other direction, which suggests that the assumption of sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences is strictly weaker than that of iterated modular squaring. In other words, the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences might hold even in the case of an algorithmic improvement violating the sequential hardness of iterated modular squaring.\r\n\r\nSecond, we demonstrate the feasibility of constructing practically-efficient verifiable delay functions based on the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences. Our construction builds on the work of Pietrzak (ITCS 2019) by leveraging the intrinsic connection between the problem of computing modular Lucas sequences and exponentiation in an appropriate extension field.\r\n\r\nKeywords\r\nDelay functions\r\nVerifiable delay functions\r\nLucas sequences\r\nDownload conference paper PDF\r\n\r\n1 Introduction\r\nA verifiable delay function (VDF) \r\n is a function that satisfies two properties. First, it is a delay function, which means it must take a prescribed (wall) time T to compute f, irrespective of the amount of parallelism available. Second, it should be possible for anyone to quickly verify – say, given a short proof \r\n – the value of the function (even without resorting to parallelism), where by quickly we mean that the verification time should be independent of or significantly smaller than T (e.g., logarithmic in T). If we drop either of the two requirements, then the primitive turns out trivial to construct. For instance, for an appropriately chosen hash function h, the delay function \r\n defined by T-times iterated hashing of the input is a natural heuristic for an inherently sequential task which, however, seems hard to verify more efficiently than by recomputing. On the other hand, the identity function \r\n is trivial to verify but also easily computable. Designing a simple function satisfying the two properties simultaneously proved to be a nontrivial task.\r\n\r\nThe notion of VDFs was introduced in [31] and later formalised in [9]. In principle, since the task of constructing a VDF reduces to the task of incrementally-verifiable computation [9, 53], constructions of VDFs could leverage succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs): take any sequentially-hard function f (for instance, iterated hashing) as the delay function and then use the SNARK on top of it as the mechanism for verifying the computation of the delay function. However, as discussed in [9], the resulting construction is not quite practical since we would rely on a general-purpose machinery of SNARKs with significant overhead.\r\n\r\nEfficient VDFs via Algebraic Delay Functions. VDFs have recently found interesting applications in design of blockchains [17], randomness beacons [43, 51], proofs of data replication [9], or short-lived zero-knowledge proofs and signatures [3]. Since efficiency is an important factor there, this has resulted in a flurry of constructions of VDFs that are tailored with application and practicality in mind. They rely on more algebraic, structured delay functions that often involve iterating an atomic operation so that one can resort to custom proof systems to achieve verifiability. These constructions involve a range of algebraic settings like the RSA or class groups [5, 8, 25, 42, 55], permutation polynomials over finite fields [9], isogenies of elliptic curves [21, 52] and, very recently, lattices [15, 28]. The constructions in [42, 55] are arguably the most practical and the mechanism that underlies their delay function is the same: carry out iterated squaring in groups of unknown order, like RSA groups [47] or class groups [12]. What distinguishes these two proposals is the way verification is carried out, i.e., how the underlying “proof of exponentiation” works: while Pietrzak [42] resorts to an LFKN-style recursive proof system [35], Wesolowski [55] uses a clever linear decomposition of the exponent.\r\n\r\nIterated Modular Squaring and Sequentiality. The delay function that underlies the VDFs in [5, 25, 42, 55] is the same, and its security relies on the conjectured sequential hardness of iterated squaring in a group of unknown order (suggested in the context of time-lock puzzles by Rivest, Shamir, and Wagner [48]). Given that the practically efficient VDFs all rely on the above single delay function, an immediate open problem is to identify additional sources of sequential hardness that are structured enough to support practically efficient verifiability.\r\n\r\n1.1 Our Approach to (Verifiable) Delay Functions\r\nIn this work, we study an alternative source of sequential hardness in the algebraic setting and use it to construct efficient verifiable delay functions. The sequentiality of our delay function relies on an atomic operation that is related to the computation of so-called Lucas sequences [29, 34, 57], explained next.\r\n\r\nLucas Sequences. A Lucas sequence is a constant-recursive integer sequence that satisfies the recurrence relation\r\n\r\nfor integers P and Q.Footnote1 Specifically, the Lucas sequences of integers \r\n and \r\n of the first and second type (respectively) are defined recursively as\r\n\r\nwith \r\n, and\r\n\r\nwith \r\n.\r\n\r\nThese sequences can be alternatively defined by the characteristic polynomial \r\n. Specifically, given the discriminant \r\n of the characteristic polynomial, one can alternatively compute the above sequences by performing operations in the extension field\r\n\r\nusing the identities\r\n\r\nwhere \r\n and its conjugate \r\n are roots of the characteristic polynomial. Since conjugation and exponentiation commute in the extension field (i.e., \r\n), computing the i-th terms of the two Lucas sequences over integers reduces to computing \r\n in the extension field, and vice versa.\r\n\r\nThe intrinsic connection between computing the terms in the Lucas sequences and that of exponentiation in the extension has been leveraged to provide alternative instantiations of public-key encryption schemes like RSA and ElGamal in terms of Lucas sequences [7, 30]. However, as we explain later, the corresponding underlying computational hardness assumptions are not necessarily equivalent.\r\n\r\nOverview of Our Delay Function. The delay function in [5, 25, 42, 55] is defined as the iterated squaring base x in a (safe) RSA groupFootnote2 modulo N:\r\n\r\nOur delay function is its analogue in the setting of Lucas sequences:\r\n\r\nAs mentioned above, computing \r\n can be carried out equivalently in the extension field \r\n using the known relationship to roots of the characteristic polynomial of the Lucas sequence. Thus, the delay function can be alternatively defined as\r\n\r\nNote that the atomic operation of our delay function is “doubling” the index of an element of the Lucas sequence modulo N (i.e., \r\n) or, equivalently, squaring in the extension field \r\n (as opposed to squaring in \r\n). Using the representation of \r\n as \r\n, squaring in \r\n can be expressed as a combination of squaring, multiplication and addition modulo N, since\r\n\r\n(1)\r\nSince \r\n is a group of unknown order (provided the factorization of N is kept secret), iterated squaring remains hard here. In fact, we show in Sect. 3.2 that iterated squaring in \r\n is at least as hard as iterated squaring for RSA moduli N. Moreover, we conjecture in Conjecture 1 that it is, in fact, strictly harder (also see discussion below on advantages of our approach).\r\n\r\nVerifying Modular Lucas Sequence. To obtain a VDF, we need to show how to efficiently verify our delay function. To this end, we show how to adapt the interactive proof of exponentiation from [42] to our setting, which then – via the Fiat-Shamir Transform [22] – yields the non-interactive verification algorithm.Footnote3 Thus, our main result is stated informally below.\r\n\r\nTheorem 1\r\n(Informally stated, see Theorem 2). Assuming sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequence, there exists statistically-sound VDF in the random-oracle model.\r\n\r\nHowever, the modification of Pietrzak’s protocol is not trivial and we have to overcome several hurdles that we face in this task, which we elaborate on in Sect. 1.2. We conclude this section with discussions about our results.\r\n\r\nAdvantage of Our Approach. Our main advantage is the reliance on a potentially weaker (sequential) hardness assumption while maintaining efficiency: we show in Sect. 3.2 that modular Lucas sequences are at least as sequentially-hard as the classical delay function given by iterated modular squaring [48]. Despite the linear recursive structure of Lucas sequences, there is no obvious reduction in the other direction, which suggests that the assumption of sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences is strictly weaker than that of iterated modular squaring (Conjecture 1). In other words, the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences might hold even in the case of an algorithmic improvement violating the sequential hardness of iterated modular squaring. Even though both assumptions need the group order to be hidden, we believe that there is need for a nuanced analysis of sequential hardness assumptions in hidden order groups, especially because all current delay functions that provide sufficient structure for applications are based on iterated modular squaring. If the iterated modular squaring assumption is broken, our delay function is currently the only practical alternative in the RSA group.\r\n\r\nDelay Functions in Idealised Models. Recent works studied the relationship of group-theoretic (verifiable) delay functions to the hardness of factoring in idealised models such as the algebraic group model and the generic ring model [27, 50]. In the generic ring model, Rotem and Segev [50] showed the equivalence of straight-line delay functions in the RSA setting and factoring. Our construction gives rise to a straight-line delay function and, by their result, its sequentiality is equivalent to factoring for generic algorithms. However, their result holds only in the generic ring model and leaves the relationship between the two assumptions unresolved in the standard model.\r\n\r\nCompare this with the status of the RSA assumption and factoring. On one hand, we know that in the generic ring model, RSA and factoring are equivalent [2]. Yet, it is possible to rule out certain classes of reductions from factoring to RSA in the standard model [11]. Most importantly, despite the equivalence in the generic ring model, there is currently no reduction from factoring to RSA in the standard model and it remains one of the major open problems in number theory related to cryptography since the introduction of the RSA assumption.\r\n\r\nIn summary, speeding up iterated squaring by a non-generic algorithm could be possible (necessarily exploiting the representations of ring elements modulo N), while such an algorithm may not lead to a speed-up in the computation of modular Lucas sequences despite the result of Rotem and Segev [50].\r\n\r\n1.2 Technical Overview\r\nPietrzak’s VDF. Let \r\n be an RSA modulus where p and q are safe primes and let x be a random element from \r\n. At its core, Pietrzak’s VDF relies on the interactive protocol for the statement\r\n\r\n“(N, x, y, T) satisfies \r\n”.\r\n\r\nThe protocol is recursive and, in a round-by-round fashion, reduces the claim to a smaller statement by halving the time parameter. To be precise, in each round, the (honest) prover sends the “midpoint” \r\n of the current statement to the verifier and they together reduce the statement to\r\n\r\n“\r\n satisfies \r\n”,\r\n\r\nwhere \r\n and \r\n for a random challenge r. This is continued till \r\n is obtained at which point the verifier simply checks whether \r\n using a single modular squaring.\r\n\r\nSince the challenges r are public, the protocol can be compiled into a non-interactive one using the Fiat-Shamir transform [22] and this yields a means to verify the delay function\r\n\r\nIt is worth pointing out that the choice of safe primes is crucial for proving soundness: in case the group has easy-to-find elements of small order then it becomes easy to break soundness (see, e.g., [10]).\r\n\r\nAdapting Pietrzak’s Protocol to Lucas Sequences. For a modulus \r\n and integers \r\n, recall that our delay function is defined as\r\n\r\nor equivalently\r\n\r\nfor the discriminant \r\n of the characteristic polynomial \r\n. Towards building a verification algorithm for this delay function, the natural first step is to design an interactive protocol for the statement\r\n\r\n“(N, P, Q, y, T) satisfies \r\n.”\r\n\r\nIt turns out that the interactive protocol from [42] can be adapted for this purpose. However, we encounter two technicalities in this process.\r\n\r\nDealing with elements of small order. The main problem that we face while designing our protocol is avoiding elements of small order. In the case of [42], this was accomplished by moving to the setting of signed quadratic residues [26] in which the sub-groups are all of large order. It is not clear whether a corresponding object exists for our algebraic setting. However, in an earlier draft of Pietrzak’s protocol [41], this problem was dealt with in a different manner: the prover sends a square root of \r\n, from which the original \r\n can be recovered easily (by squaring it) with a guarantee that the result lies in a group of quadratic residues \r\n. Notice that the prover knows the square root of \r\n, because it is just a previous term in the sequence he computed.\r\n\r\nIn our setting, we cannot simply ask for the square root of the midpoint as the subgroup of \r\n we effectively work in has a different structure. Nevertheless, we can use a similar approach: for an appropriately chosen small a, we provide an a-th root of \r\n (instead of \r\n itself) to the prover in the beginning of the protocol. The prover then computes the whole sequence for \r\n. In the end, he has the a-th root of every term of the original sequence and he can recover any element of the original sequence by raising to the a-th power.\r\n\r\nSampling strong modulus. The second technicality is related to the first one. In order to ensure that we can use the above trick, we require a modulus where the small subgroups are reasonably small not only in the group \r\n but also in the extension \r\n. Thus the traditional sampling algorithms that are used to sample strong primes (e.g., [46]) are not sufficient for our purposes. However, sampling strong primes that suit our criteria can still be carried out efficiently as we show in the full version.\r\n\r\nComparing Our Technique with [8, 25]. The VDFs in [8, 25] are also inspired by [42] and, hence, faced the same problem of low-order elements. In [8], this is dealt with by amplifying the soundness at the cost of parallel repetition and hence larger proofs and extra computation. In [25], the number of repetitions of [8] is reduced significantly by introducing the following technique: The exponent of the initial instance is reduced by some parameter \r\n and at the end of an interactive phase, the verifier performs final exponentiation with \r\n, thereby weeding out potential false low-order elements in the claim. This technique differs from the approach taken in our work in the following ways: The technique from [25] works in arbitrary groups but it requires the parameter \r\n to be large and of a specific form. In particular, the VDF becomes more efficient when \r\n is larger than \r\n. In our protocol, we work in RSA groups whose modulus is the product of primes that satisfy certain conditions depending on a. This enables us to choose a parameter a that is smaller than a statistical security parameter and thereby makes the final exponentiation performed by the verifier much more efficient. Further, a can be any natural number, while \r\n must be set as powers of all small prime numbers up a certain bound in [25].\r\n\r\n1.3 More Related Work\r\nTimed Primitives. The notion of VDFs was introduced in [31] and later formalised in [9]. VDFs are closely related to the notions of time-lock puzzles [48] and proofs of sequential work [36]. Roughly speaking, a time-lock puzzle is a delay function that additionally allows efficient sampling of the output via a trapdoor. A proof of sequential work, on the other hand, is a delay “multi-function”, in the sense that the output is not necessarily unique. Constructions of time-lock puzzles are rare [6, 38, 48], and there are known limitations: e.g., that it cannot exist in the random-oracle model [36]. However, we know how to construct proofs of sequential work in the random-oracle model [1, 16, 19, 36].\r\n\r\nSince VDFs have found several applications, e.g., in the design of resource-efficient blockchains [17], randomness beacons [43, 51] and proof of data replication [9], there have been several constructions. Among them, the most notable are the iterated-squaring based construction from [8, 25, 42, 55], the permutation-polynomial based construction from [9], the isogenies-based construction from [13, 21, 52] and the construction from lattice problems [15, 28]. The constructions in [42, 55] are quite practical (see the survey [10]) and the VDF deployed in the cryptocurrency Chia is basically their construction adapted to the algebraic setting of class groups [17]. This is arguably the closest work to ours. On the other hand, the constructions from [21, 52], which work in the algebraic setting of isogenies of elliptic curves where no analogue of square and multiply is known, simply rely on “exponentiation”. Although, these constructions provide a certain form of quantum resistance, they are presently far from efficient. Freitag et al. [23] constructed VDFs from any sequentially hard function and polynomial hardness of learning with errors, the first from standard assumptions. The works of Cini, Lai, and Malavolta [15, 28] constructed the first VDF from lattice-based assumptions and conjectured it to be post-quantum secure.\r\n\r\nSeveral variants of VDFs have also been proposed. A VDF is said to be unique if the proof that is used for verification is unique [42]. Recently, Choudhuri et al. [5] constructed unique VDFs from the sequential hardness of iterated squaring in any RSA group and polynomial hardness of LWE. A VDF is tight [18] if the gap between simply computing the function and computing it with a proof is small. Yet another extension is a continuous VDF [20]. The feasibility of time-lock puzzles and proofs of sequential works were recently extended to VDFs. It was shown [50] that the latter requirement, i.e., working in a group of unknown order, is inherent in a black-box sense. It was shown in [18, 37] that there are barriers to constructing tight VDFs in the random-oracle model.\r\n\r\nVDFs also have surprising connection to complexity theory [14, 20, 33].\r\n\r\nWork Related to Lucas Sequences. Lucas sequences have long been studied in the context of number theory: see for example [45] or [44] for a survey of its applications to number theory. Its earliest application to cryptography can be traced to the \r\n factoring algorithm [56]. Constructive applications were found later thanks to the parallels with exponentiation. Several encryption and signature schemes were proposed, most notably the LUC family of encryption and signatures [30, 39]. It was later shown that some of these schemes can be broken or that the advantages it claimed were not present [7]. Other applications can be found in [32].\r\n\r\n2 Preliminaries\r\n2.1 Interactive Proof Systems\r\nInteractive Protocols. An interactive protocol consists of a pair \r\n of interactive Turing machines that are run on a common input \r\n. The first machine \r\n is the prover and is computationally unbounded. The second machine \r\n is the verifier and is probabilistic polynomial-time.\r\n\r\nIn an \r\n-round (i.e., \r\n-message) interactive protocol, in each round \r\n, first \r\n sends a message \r\n to \r\n and then \r\n sends a message \r\n to \r\n, where \r\n is a finite alphabet. At the end of the interaction, \r\n runs a (deterministic) Turing machine on input \r\n. The interactive protocol is public-coin if \r\n is a uniformly distributed random string in \r\n.\r\n\r\nInteractive Proof Systems. The notion of an interactive proof for a language L is due to Goldwasser, Micali and Rackoff [24].\r\n\r\nDefinition 1\r\nFor a function \r\n, an interactive protocol \r\n is an \r\n-statistically-sound interactive proof system for L if:\r\n\r\nCompleteness: For every \r\n, if \r\n interacts with \r\n on common input \r\n, then \r\n accepts with probability 1.\r\n\r\nSoundness: For every \r\n and every (computationally-unbounded) cheating prover strategy \r\n, the verifier \r\n accepts when interacting with \r\n with probability less than \r\n, where \r\n is called the soundness error.\r\n\r\n2.2 Verifiable Delay Functions\r\nWe adapt the definition of verifiable delay functions from [9] but we decouple the verifiability and sequentiality properties for clarity of exposition of our results. First, we present the definition of a delay function.\r\n\r\nDefinition 2\r\nA delay function \r\n consists of a triple of algorithms with the following syntax:\r\n\r\n:\r\n\r\nOn input a security parameter \r\n, the algorithm \r\n outputs public parameters \r\n.\r\n\r\n:\r\n\r\nOn input public parameters \r\n and a time parameter \r\n, the algorithm \r\n outputs a challenge x.\r\n\r\n:\r\n\r\nOn input a challenge pair (x, T), the (deterministic) algorithm \r\n outputs the value y of the delay function in time T.\r\n\r\nThe security property required of a delay function is sequential hardness as defined below.\r\n\r\nDefinition 3\r\n(Sequentiality). We say that a delay function \r\n satisfies the sequentiality property, if there exists an \r\n such that for all \r\n and for every adversary \r\n, where \r\n uses \r\n processors and runs in time \r\n, there exists a negligible function \r\n such that\r\n\r\nfigure a\r\nA few remarks about our definition of sequentiality are in order:\r\n\r\n1.\r\nWe require computing \r\n to be hard in less than T sequential steps even using any polynomially-bounded amount of parallelism and precomputation. Note that it is necessary to bound the amount of parallelism, as an adversary could otherwise break the underlying hardness assumption (e.g. hardness of factorization). Analogously, T should be polynomial in \r\n as, otherwise, breaking the underlying hardness assumptions becomes easier than computing \r\n itself for large values of T.\r\n\r\n2.\r\nAnother issue is what bound on the number of sequential steps of the adversary should one impose. For example, the delay function based on T repeated modular squarings can be computed in sequential time \r\n using polynomial parallelism [4]. Thus, one cannot simply bound the sequential time of the adversary by o(T). Similarly to [38], we adapt the \r\n bound for \r\n which, in particular, is asymptotically smaller than \r\n.\r\n\r\n3.\r\nWithout loss of generality, we assume that the size of \r\n is at least linear in n and the adversary A does not have to get the unary representation of the security parameter \r\n as its input.\r\n\r\nThe definition of verifiable delay function extends a delay function with the possibility to compute publicly-verifiable proofs of correctness of the output value.\r\n\r\nDefinition 4\r\nA delay function \r\n is a verifiable delay function if it is equipped with two additional algorithms \r\n and \r\n with the following syntax:\r\n\r\n:\r\n\r\nOn input public parameters and a challenge pair (x, T), the \r\n algorithm outputs \r\n, where \r\n is a proof that the output y is the output of \r\n.\r\n\r\n:\r\n\r\nOn input public parameters, a challenge pair (x, T), and an output/proof pair \r\n, the (deterministic) algorithm \r\n outputs either \r\n or \r\n.\r\n\r\nIn addition to sequentiality (inherited from the underlying delay function), the \r\n and \r\n algorithms must together satisfy correctness and (statistical) soundness as defined below.\r\n\r\nDefinition 5\r\n(Correctness). A verifiable delay function \r\n is correct if for all \r\n\r\nfigure b\r\nDefinition 6\r\n(Statistical soundness). A verifiable delay function \r\n is statistically sound if for every (computationally unbounded) malicious prover \r\n there exists a negligible function \r\n such that for all \r\n\r\nfigure c\r\n3 Delay Functions from Lucas Sequences\r\nIn this section, we propose a delay function based on Lucas sequences and prove its sequentiality assuming that iterated squaring in a group of unknown order is sequential (Sect. 3.1). Further, we conjecture (Sect. 3.2) that our delay function candidate is even more robust than its predecessor proposed by Rivest, Shamir, and Wagner [48]. Finally, we turn our delay function candidate into a verifiable delay function (Sect. 4).\r\n\r\n3.1 The Atomic Operation\r\nOur delay function is based on subsequences of Lucas sequences, whose indexes are powers of two. Below, we use \r\n to denote the set of non-negative integers.\r\n\r\nDefinition 7\r\nFor integers \r\n, the Lucas sequences \r\n and \r\n are defined for all \r\n as\r\n\r\nwith \r\n and \r\n, and\r\n\r\nwith \r\n and \r\n.\r\n\r\nWe define subsequences \r\n, respectively \r\n, of \r\n, respectively \r\n for all \r\n as\r\n\r\n(2)\r\nAlthough the value of \r\n depends on parameters (P, Q), we omit (P, Q) from the notation because these parameters will be always obvious from the context.\r\n\r\nThe underlying atomic operation for our delay function is\r\n\r\nThere are several ways to compute \r\n in T sequential steps, and we describe two of them below.\r\n\r\nAn Approach Based on Squaring in a Suitable Extension Ring. To compute the value \r\n, we can use the extension ring \r\n, where \r\n is the discriminant of the characteristic polynomial \r\n of the Lucas sequence. The characteristic polynomial f(z) has a root \r\n, and it is known that, for all \r\n, it holds that\r\n\r\nThus, by iterated squaring of \r\n, we can compute terms of our target subsequences. To get a better understanding of squaring in the extension ring, consider the representation of the root \r\n for some \r\n. Then,\r\n\r\nThen, the atomic operation of our delay function can be interpreted as \r\n, defined for all \r\n as\r\n\r\n(3)\r\nAn Approach Based on Known Identities. Many useful identities for members of modular Lucas sequences are known, such as\r\n\r\n(4)\r\nSetting \r\n we get\r\n\r\n(5)\r\nThe above identities are not hard to derive (see, e.g., Lemma 12.5 in [40]). Indexes are doubled on each of application of the identities in Eq. (5), and, thus, for \r\n, we define an auxiliary sequence \r\n by \r\n. Using the identities in Eq. (5), we get recursive equations\r\n\r\n(6)\r\nThen, the atomic operation of our delay function can be interpreted as \r\n, defined for all \r\n as\r\n\r\n(7)\r\nAfter a closer inspection, the reader may have an intuition that an auxiliary sequence \r\n, which introduces a third state variable, is redundant. This intuition is indeed right. In fact, there is another easily derivable identity\r\n\r\n(8)\r\nwhich can be found, e.g., as Lemma 12.2 in [40]. On the other hand, Eq. (8) is quite interesting because it allows us to compute large powers of an element \r\n using two Lucas sequences. We use this fact in the security reduction in Sect. 3.2. Our construction of a delay function, denoted \r\n, is given in Fig. 1.\r\n\r\nFig. 1.\r\nfigure 1\r\nOur delay function candidate \r\n based on a modular Lucas sequence.\r\n\r\nFull size image\r\nOn the Discriminant D. Notice that whenever D is a quadratic residue modulo N, the value \r\n is an element of \r\n and hence \r\n. By definition, LCS.Gen generates a parameter D that is a quadratic residue with probability 1/4, so it might seem that in one fourth of the cases there is another approach to compute \r\n: find the element \r\n and then perform n sequential squarings in the group \r\n. However, it is well known that finding square roots of uniform elements in \r\n is equivalent to factoring the modulus N, so this approach is not feasible. We can therefore omit any restrictions on the discriminant D in the definition of our delay function LCS.\r\n\r\n3.2 Reduction from RSW Delay Function\r\nIn order to prove the sequentiality property (Definition 3) of our candidate \r\n, we rely on the standard conjecture of the sequentiality of the \r\n time-lock puzzles, implicitly stated in [48] as the underlying hardness assumption.\r\n\r\nDefinition 8\r\n(\r\n delay function). The \r\n delay function is defined as follows:\r\n\r\n: Samples two n-bit primes p and q and outputs \r\n.\r\n\r\n: Outputs an x sampled from the uniform distribution on \r\n.\r\n\r\n: Outputs \r\n.\r\n\r\nTheorem 2\r\nIf the \r\n delay function has the sequentiality property, then the \r\n delay function has the sequentiality property.\r\n\r\nProof\r\nSuppose there exists an adversary \r\n who contradicts the sequentiality of \r\n, where \r\n is a precomputation algorithm and \r\n is an online algorithm. We construct an adversary \r\n who contradicts the sequentiality of \r\n as follows:\r\n\r\nThe algorithm \r\n is defined identically to the algorithm \r\n.\r\n\r\nOn input \r\n, \r\n picks a P from the uniform distribution on \r\n, sets\r\n\r\nand it runs \r\n to compute \r\n. The algorithm \r\n computes \r\n using the identity in Eq. (8).\r\n\r\nNote that the input distribution for the algorithm \r\n produced by \r\n differs from the one produced by \r\n, because the \r\n generator samples Q from the uniform distribution on \r\n (instead of \r\n). However, this is not a problem since the size of \r\n is negligible compared to the size of \r\n, so the statistical distance between the distribution of D produced by \r\n and the distribution of D sampled by \r\n is negligible in the security parameter. Thus, except for a negligible multiplicative loss, the adversary \r\n attains the same success probability of breaking the sequentiality of \r\n as the probability of \r\n breaking the sequentiality of \r\n – a contradiction to the assumption of the theorem. \r\n\r\nWe believe that the converse implication to Theorem 2 is not true, i.e., that breaking the sequentiality of \r\n does not necessarily imply breaking the sequentiality of \r\n. Below, we state it as a conjecture.\r\n\r\nConjecture 1\r\nSequentiality of \r\n cannot be reduced to sequentiality of \r\n.\r\n\r\nOne reason why the above conjecture might be true is that, while the \r\n delay function is based solely only on multiplication in the group \r\n, our \r\n delay function uses the full arithmetic (addition and multiplication) of the commutative ring \r\n.\r\n\r\nOne way to support the conjecture would be to construct an algorithm that speeds up iterated squaring but is not immediately applicable to Lucas sequences. By [49] we know that this cannot be achieved by a generic algorithm. A non-generic algorithm that solves iterated squaring in time \r\n is presented in [4]. The main tool of their construction is the Explicit Chinese Remainder Theorem modulo N. However, a similiar theorem exists also for univariate polynomial rings, which suggests that a similar speed-up can be obtained for our delay function by adapting the techniques in [4] to our setting.\r\n\r\n4 VDF from Lucas Sequences\r\nIn Sect. 3.1 we saw different ways of computing the atomic operation of the delay function. Computing \r\n in the extension field seems to be the more natural and time and space effective approach. Furthermore, writing the atomic operation \r\n as \r\n is very clear, and, thus, we follow this approach throughout the rest of the paper.\r\n\r\n4.1 Structure of \r\nTo construct a VDF based on Lucas sequences, we use an algebraic extension\r\n\r\n(9)\r\nwhere N is an RSA modulus and \r\n. In this section, we describe the structure of the algebraic extension given in Expression (9). Based on our understanding of the structure of the above algebraic extension, we can conclude that using modulus N composed of safe primes (i.e., for all prime factors p of N, \r\n has a large prime divisor) is necessary but not sufficient condition for security of our construction. We specify some sufficient conditions on factors of N in the subsequent Sect. 4.2.\r\n\r\nFirst, we introduce some simplifying notation for quotient rings.\r\n\r\nDefinition 9\r\nFor \r\n and \r\n, we denote by \r\n the quotient ring \r\n, where (m, f(x)) denotes the ideal of the ring \r\n generated by m and f(x).\r\n\r\nObservation 1, below, allows us to restrict our analysis only to the structure of \r\n for prime \r\n.\r\n\r\nObservation 1\r\nLet \r\n be distinct primes, \r\n and \r\n. Then\r\n\r\nProof\r\nUsing the Chinese reminder theorem, we get\r\n\r\nas claimed. \r\n\r\nThe following lemma characterizes the structure of \r\n with respect to the discriminant of f. We use \r\n to denote the standard Legendre symbol.\r\n\r\nLemma 1\r\nLet \r\n and \r\n be a polynomial of degree 2 with the discriminant D. Then\r\n\r\nProof\r\nWe consider each case separately:\r\n\r\nIf \r\n, then f(x) is irreducible over \r\n and \r\n is a field with \r\n elements. Since \r\n is a finite field, \r\n is cyclic and contains \r\n elements.\r\n\r\nIf \r\n, then \r\n and f has some double root \r\n and it can be written as \r\n for some \r\n. Since the ring \r\n is isomorphic to the ring \r\n (consider the isomorphism \r\n), we can restrict ourselves to describing the structure of \r\n.\r\n\r\nWe will prove that the function \r\n,\r\n\r\nis an isomorphism. First, the polynomial \r\n is invertible if and only if \r\n (inverse is \r\n). For the choice \r\n, we have\r\n\r\nThus \r\n is onto. Second, \r\n is, in fact, a bijection, because\r\n\r\n(10)\r\nFinally, \r\n is a homomorphism, because\r\n\r\nIf \r\n, then f(x) has two roots \r\n. We have an isomorphism\r\n\r\nand \r\n. \r\n\r\n4.2 Strong Groups and Strong Primes\r\nTo achieve the verifiability property of our construction, we need \r\n to contain a strong subgroup (defined next) of order asymptotically linear in p. We remark that our definition of strong primes is stronger than the one by Rivest and Silverman [46].\r\n\r\nDefinition 10\r\n(Strong groups). For \r\n, we say that a non-trivial group \r\n is \r\n-strong, if the order of each non-trivial subgroup of \r\n is greater than \r\n.\r\n\r\nObservation 2\r\nIf \r\n and \r\n are \r\n-strong groups, then \r\n is a \r\n-strong group.\r\n\r\nIt can be seen from Lemma 1 that \r\n always contains groups of small order (e.g. \r\n). To avoid these, we descend into the subgroup of a-th powers of elements of \r\n. Below, we introduce the corresponding notation.\r\n\r\nDefinition 11\r\nFor an Abelian group \r\n and \r\n, we define the subgroup \r\n of \r\n in the multiplicative notation and \r\n in the additive notation.\r\n\r\nFurther, we show in Lemma 2 below that \r\n-strong primality (defined next) is a sufficient condition for \r\n to be a \r\n-strong group.\r\n\r\nDefinition 12\r\n(Strong primes). Let \r\n and \r\n. We say that p is a \r\n-strong prime, if \r\n and there exists \r\n, \r\n, such that \r\n and every prime factor of W is greater than \r\n.\r\n\r\nSince a is a public parameter in our setup, super-polynomial a could reveal partial information about the factorization of N. However, we could allow a to be polynomial in \r\n while maintaining hardness of factoring N.Footnote4 For the sake of simplicity of Definition 12, we rather use stronger condition \r\n. The following simple observation will be useful for proving Lemma 2.\r\n\r\nObservation 3\r\nFor \r\n.\r\n\r\nLemma 2\r\nLet p be a \r\n-strong prime and \r\n be a quadratic polynomial. Then, \r\n is a \r\n-strong group.\r\n\r\nProof\r\nFrom definition of the strong primes, there exists \r\n, whose factors are bigger than \r\n and \r\n. We denote \r\n a factor of W. Applying Observation 3 to Lemma 1, we get\r\n\r\nIn particular, we used above the fact that Observation 2 implies that \r\n as explained next. Since \r\n, all divisors of \r\n are divisors of aW. By definition of a and W in Definition 12, we also have that \r\n, which implies that any factor of \r\n divides either a or W, but not both. When we divide \r\n by all the common divisors with a, only the common divisors with W are left, which implies \r\n. The proof of the lemma is now completed by Observation 2.\r\n\r\nCorollary 1\r\nLet p be a \r\n-strong prime, q be a \r\n-strong prime, \r\n, \r\n, \r\n and \r\n. Then \r\n is \r\n-strong.\r\n\r\n4.3 Our Interactive Protocol\r\nOur interactive protocol is formally described in Fig. 3. To understand this protocol, we first recall the outline of Pietrzak’s interactive protocol from Sect. 1.2 and then highlight the hurdles. Let \r\n be an RSA modulus where p and q are strong primes and let x be a random element from \r\n. The interactive protocol in [42] allows a prover to convince the verifier of the statement\r\n\r\n“(N, x, y, T) satisfies \r\n”.\r\n\r\nThe protocol is recursive and in a round-by-round fashion reduces the claim to a smaller statement by halving the time parameter. To be precise, in each round the (honest) prover sends the “midpoint” \r\n of the current statement to the verifier and they together reduce the statement to\r\n\r\n“\r\n satisfies \r\n”,\r\n\r\nwhere \r\n and \r\n for a random challenge r. This is continued until \r\n is obtained at which point the verifier simply checks whether \r\n.\r\n\r\nThe main problem, we face while designing our protocol is ensuring that the verifier can check whether \r\n sent by prover lies in an appropriate subgroup of \r\n. In the first draft of Pietrzak’s protocol [41], prover sends a square root of \r\n, from which the original \r\n can be recovered easily (by simply squaring it) with a guarantee, that the result lies in a group of quadratic residues \r\n. Notice that the prover knows the square root of \r\n, because it is just a previous term in the sequence he computed.\r\n\r\nUsing Pietrzak’s protocol directly for our delay function would require computing a-th roots in RSA group for some arbitrary a. Since this is a computationally hard problem, we cannot use the same trick. In fact, the VDF construction of Wesolowski [54] is based on similar hardness assumption.\r\n\r\nWhile Pietrzak shifted from \r\n to the group of signed quadratic residues \r\n in his following paper [42] to get unique proofs, we resort to his old idea of ‘squaring a square root’ and generalise it.\r\n\r\nThe high level idea is simple. First, on input \r\n, prover computes the sequence \r\n. Next, during the protocol, verifier maps all elements sent by the prover by homomorphism\r\n\r\n(11)\r\ninto the target strong group \r\n. This process is illustrated in Fig. 2. Notice that the equality \r\n for the original sequence implies the equality \r\n for the mapped sequence \r\n.\r\n\r\nFig. 2.\r\nfigure 2\r\nIllustration of our computation of the iterated squaring using the a-th root of \r\n. Horizontal arrows are \r\n and diagonal arrows are \r\n.\r\n\r\nFull size image\r\nRestriction to Elements of \r\n. Mapping Eq. (11) introduces a new technical difficulty. Since \r\n is not injective, we narrow the domain inputs, for which the output of our VDF is verifiable, from \r\n to \r\n. Furthermore, the only way to verify that a certain x is an element of \r\n is to get an a-th root of x and raise it to the ath power. So we have to represent elements of \r\n by elements of \r\n anyway. To resolve these two issues, we introduce a non-unique representation of elements of \r\n.\r\n\r\nDefinition 13\r\nFor \r\n and \r\n, we denote \r\n (an element of \r\n) by [x]. Since this representation of \r\n is not unique, we define an equality relation by\r\n\r\nWe will denote by tilde () the elements that were already powered to the a by a verifier (i.e. ). Thus tilded variables verifiably belong to the target group \r\n.\r\n\r\nIn the following text, the goal of the brackets notation in Definition 13 is to distinguish places where the equality means the equality of elements of \r\n from those places, where the equality holds up to \r\n. A reader can also see the notation in Definition 13 as a concrete representation of elements of a factor group \r\n.\r\n\r\nOur security reduction 2 required the delay function to operate everywhere on \r\n. This is not a problem if the \r\n algorithm is modified to output the set \r\n.\r\n\r\nFig. 3.\r\nfigure 3\r\nOur Interactive Protocol for \r\n.\r\n\r\nFull size image\r\n4.4 Security\r\nRecall here that \r\n is \r\n-strong group, so there exist\r\n\r\n and \r\n such that\r\n\r\n(12)\r\nDefinition 14\r\nFor \r\n and \r\n, we define \r\n as i-th coordinate of \r\n, where \r\n is the isomorphism given by Eq. (12).\r\n\r\nLemma 3\r\nLet \r\n and \r\n. If \r\n, then\r\n\r\n\t(13)\r\nProof\r\nFix \r\n, \r\n and y. Let some \r\n satisfy\r\n\r\n(14)\r\nUsing notation from Definition 14, we rewrite Eq. (14) as a set of equations\r\n\r\nFor every \r\n, by reordering the terms, the j-th equation becomes\r\n\r\n(15)\r\nIf \r\n, then \r\n. Further for every \r\n. It follows that \r\n. Putting these two equations together gives us \r\n, which contradicts our assumption \r\n.\r\n\r\nIt follows that there exists \r\n such that\r\n\r\n(16)\r\nThereafter there exists \r\n such that \r\n divides \r\n and\r\n\r\n(17)\r\nFurthermore, from Eq. (15), \r\n divides \r\n. Finally, dividing eq. Eq. (15) by \r\n, we get that r is determined uniquely (\r\n),\r\n\r\nUsing the fact that \r\n, this uniqueness of r upper bounds number of \r\n, such that Eq. (14) holds, to one. It follows that the probability that Eq. (14) holds for r chosen randomly from the uniform distribution over \r\n is less than \r\n. \r\n\r\nCorollary 2\r\nThe halving protocol will turn an invalid input tuple (i.e. \r\n) into a valid output tuple (i.e. \r\n) with probability less than \r\n.\r\n\r\nTheorem 3\r\nFor any computationally unbounded prover who submits anything other than \r\n such that \r\n in phase 2 of the protocol, the soundness error is upper-bounded by \r\n\r\nProof\r\nIn each round of the protocol, T decreases to \r\n. It follows that the number of rounds of the halving protocol before reaching \r\n is upper bounded by \r\n.\r\n\r\nIf the verifier accepts the solution tuple \r\n in the last round, then the equality \r\n must hold. It follows that the initial inequality must have turned into equality in some round of the halving protocol. By Lemma 3, the probability of this event is bounded by \r\n. Finally, using the union bound for all rounds, we obtain the upper bound (\r\n. \ \r\n\r\n4.5 Our VDF\r\nAnalogously to the VDF of Pietrzak [42], we compile our public-coin interactive proof given in Fig. 3 into a VDF using the Fiat-Shamir heuristic. The complete construction is given in Fig. 4. For ease of exposition, we assume that the time parameter T is always a power of two.\r\n\r\nFig. 4.\r\nfigure 4\r\n based on Lucas sequences\r\n\r\nFull size image\r\nAs discussed in Sect. 4.3, it is crucial for the security of the protocol that the prover computes a sequence of powers of the a-th root of the challenge and the resulting value (as well as the intermediate values) received from the prover is lifted to the appropriate group by raising it to the a-th power. We use the tilde notation in Fig. 4 in order to denote elements on the sequence relative to the a-th root.\r\n\r\nNote that, by the construction, the output of our VDF is the \r\n-th power of the root of the characteristic polynomial for Lucas sequence with parameters P and Q. Therefore, the value of the delay function implicitly corresponds to the \r\n-th term of the Lucas sequence.\r\n\r\nTheorem 4\r\nLet \r\n be the statistical security parameter. The \r\n VDF defined in Fig. 4 is correct and statistically-sound with a negligible soundness error if \r\n is modelled as a random oracle, against any adversary that makes \r\n oracle queries.\r\n\r\nProof\r\nThe correctness follows directly by construction.\r\n\r\nTo prove its statistical soundness, we proceed in a similar way to [42]. We cannot apply Fiat-Shamir transformation directly, because our protocol does not have constant number of rounds, thus we use Fiat-Shamir heuristic to each round separately.\r\n\r\nFirst, we use a random oracle as the \r\n function. Second, if a malicious prover computed a proof accepted by verifier for some tuple \r\n such that\r\n\r\n(19)\r\nthen he must have succeeded in turning inequality from Eq. (19) into equality in some round. By Lemma 3, probability of such a flipping is bounded by \r\n. Every such an attempt requires one query to random oracle. Using a union bound, it follows that the probability that a malicious prover who made q queries to random oracle succeeds in flipping initial inequality into equality in some round is upper-bounded by \r\n.\r\n\r\nSince q is \r\n, \r\n is a negligible function and thus the soundness error is negligible. \ \r\n\r\nNotes\r\n1.\r\nNote that integer sequences like Fibonacci numbers and Mersenne numbers are special cases of Lucas sequences.\r\n\r\n2.\r\nThe choice of modulus N is said to be safe if \r\n for safe primes \r\n and \r\n, where \r\n and \r\n are also prime.\r\n\r\n3.\r\nFurther, using the ideas from [14, 20], it is possible to construct so-called continuous VDFs from Lucas sequences.\r\n\r\n4.\r\nSince we set a to be at most polynomial in \r\n, its is possible to go over all possible candidate values for a in time polynomial in \r\n. 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(Verifiable) delay functions from Lucas sequences. In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography (Vol. 14372, pp. 336–362). Taipei, Taiwan: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48624-1_13' chicago: Hoffmann, Charlotte, Pavel Hubáček, Chethan Kamath, and Tomáš Krňák. “(Verifiable) Delay Functions from Lucas Sequences.” In 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, 14372:336–62. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48624-1_13. ieee: C. Hoffmann, P. Hubáček, C. Kamath, and T. Krňák, “(Verifiable) delay functions from Lucas sequences,” in 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, vol. 14372, pp. 336–362. ista: 'Hoffmann C, Hubáček P, Kamath C, Krňák T. 2023. (Verifiable) delay functions from Lucas sequences. 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography. TCC: Theory of Cryptography, LNCS, vol. 14372, 336–362.' mla: Hoffmann, Charlotte, et al. “(Verifiable) Delay Functions from Lucas Sequences.” 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, vol. 14372, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 336–62, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-48624-1_13. short: C. Hoffmann, P. Hubáček, C. Kamath, T. Krňák, in:, 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 336–362. conference: end_date: 2023-12-02 location: Taipei, Taiwan name: 'TCC: Theory of Cryptography' start_date: 2023-11-29 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-12-17T23:00:54Z date_published: 2023-11-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T14:01:23Z day: '27' department: - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-48624-1_13 external_id: isi: - '001160733700013' intvolume: ' 14372' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1404 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 336-362 publication: 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031486234' issn: - 0302-9743 publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: (Verifiable) delay functions from Lucas sequences type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 14372 year: '2023' ... --- OA_place: repository OA_type: green _id: '14736' abstract: - lang: eng text: Payment channel networks (PCNs) are a promising technology to improve the scalability of cryptocurrencies. PCNs, however, face the challenge that the frequent usage of certain routes may deplete channels in one direction, and hence prevent further transactions. In order to reap the full potential of PCNs, recharging and rebalancing mechanisms are required to provision channels, as well as an admission control logic to decide which transactions to reject in case capacity is insufficient. This paper presents a formal model of this optimisation problem. In particular, we consider an online algorithms perspective, where transactions arrive over time in an unpredictable manner. Our main contributions are competitive online algorithms which come with provable guarantees over time. We empirically evaluate our algorithms on randomly generated transactions to compare the average performance of our algorithms to our theoretical bounds. We also show how this model and approach differs from related problems in classic communication networks. acknowledgement: Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant 16KISK020K (6G-RIC), 2021–2025, and ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt). alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Mahsa full_name: Bastankhah, Mahsa last_name: Bastankhah - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Mohammad Ali full_name: Maddah-Ali, Mohammad Ali last_name: Maddah-Ali - first_name: Stefan full_name: Schmid, Stefan last_name: Schmid - first_name: Jakub full_name: Svoboda, Jakub id: 130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425 last_name: Svoboda orcid: 0000-0002-1419-3267 - first_name: Michelle X full_name: Yeo, Michelle X id: 2D82B818-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Yeo orcid: 0009-0001-3676-4809 citation: ama: 'Bastankhah M, Chatterjee K, Maddah-Ali MA, Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control. In: 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Vol 13950. Springer Nature; 2023:309-325. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18' apa: 'Bastankhah, M., Chatterjee, K., Maddah-Ali, M. A., Schmid, S., Svoboda, J., & Yeo, M. X. (2023). R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control. In 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (Vol. 13950, pp. 309–325). Bol, Brac, Croatia: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18' chicago: 'Bastankhah, Mahsa, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Stefan Schmid, Jakub Svoboda, and Michelle X Yeo. “R2: Boosting Liquidity in Payment Channel Networks with Online Admission Control.” In 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, 13950:309–25. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18.' ieee: 'M. Bastankhah, K. Chatterjee, M. A. Maddah-Ali, S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, and M. X. Yeo, “R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control,” in 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Bol, Brac, Croatia, 2023, vol. 13950, pp. 309–325.' ista: 'Bastankhah M, Chatterjee K, Maddah-Ali MA, Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. 2023. R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control. 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC: Financial Cryptography and Data Security, LNCS, vol. 13950, 309–325.' mla: 'Bastankhah, Mahsa, et al. “R2: Boosting Liquidity in Payment Channel Networks with Online Admission Control.” 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, vol. 13950, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 309–25, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18.' short: M. Bastankhah, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Maddah-Ali, S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. Yeo, in:, 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 309–325. conference: end_date: 2023-05-05 location: Bol, Brac, Croatia name: 'FC: Financial Cryptography and Data Security' start_date: 2023-05-01 date_created: 2024-01-08T09:30:22Z date_published: 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-11-05T07:37:31Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-47754-6_18 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001150222600018' intvolume: ' 13950' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://openreview.net/forum?id=Dg0qdd9uha month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 309-325 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: 27th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031477546' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031477539' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'R2: Boosting liquidity in payment channel networks with online admission control' type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13950 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '18218' abstract: - lang: eng text: Deep neural networks are known to be susceptible to adversarial perturbations – small perturbations that alter the output of the network and exist under strict norm limitations. While such perturbations are usually discussed as tailored to a specific input, a universal perturbation can be constructed to alter the model’s output on a set of inputs. Universal perturbations present a more realistic case of adversarial attacks, as awareness of the model’s exact input is not required. In addition, the universal attack setting raises the subject of generalization to unseen data, where given a set of inputs, the universal perturbations aim to alter the model’s output on out-of-sample data. In this work, we study physical passive patch adversarial attacks on visual odometry-based autonomous navigation systems. A visual odometry system aims to infer the relative camera motion between two corresponding viewpoints, and is frequently used by vision-based autonomous navigation systems to estimate their state. For such navigation systems, a patch adversarial perturbation poses a severe security issue, as it can be used to mislead a system onto some collision course. To the best of our knowledge, we show for the first time that the error margin of a visual odometry model can be significantly increased by deploying patch adversarial attacks in the scene. We provide evaluation on synthetic closed-loop drone navigation data and demonstrate that a comparable vulnerability exists in real data. A reference implementation of the proposed method and the reported experiments is provided at https://github.com/patchadversarialattacks/patchadversarialattacks. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Yaniv full_name: Nemcovsky, Yaniv last_name: Nemcovsky - first_name: Matan full_name: Jacoby, Matan last_name: Jacoby - first_name: Alexander full_name: Bronstein, Alexander id: 58f3726e-7cba-11ef-ad8b-e6e8cb3904e6 last_name: Bronstein orcid: 0000-0001-9699-8730 - first_name: Chaim full_name: Baskin, Chaim last_name: Baskin citation: ama: 'Nemcovsky Y, Jacoby M, Bronstein AM, Baskin C. Physical passive patch adversarial attacks on visual odometry systems. In: 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision. Vol 13847. Springer Nature; 2023:518-534. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26293-7_31' apa: 'Nemcovsky, Y., Jacoby, M., Bronstein, A. M., & Baskin, C. (2023). Physical passive patch adversarial attacks on visual odometry systems. In 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (Vol. 13847, pp. 518–534). Macao, China: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26293-7_31' chicago: Nemcovsky, Yaniv, Matan Jacoby, Alex M. Bronstein, and Chaim Baskin. “Physical Passive Patch Adversarial Attacks on Visual Odometry Systems.” In 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 13847:518–34. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26293-7_31. ieee: Y. Nemcovsky, M. Jacoby, A. M. Bronstein, and C. Baskin, “Physical passive patch adversarial attacks on visual odometry systems,” in 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Macao, China, 2023, vol. 13847, pp. 518–534. ista: 'Nemcovsky Y, Jacoby M, Bronstein AM, Baskin C. 2023. Physical passive patch adversarial attacks on visual odometry systems. 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision. ACCV: Asian Conference on Computer Vision, LNCS, vol. 13847, 518–534.' mla: Nemcovsky, Yaniv, et al. “Physical Passive Patch Adversarial Attacks on Visual Odometry Systems.” 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, vol. 13847, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 518–34, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-26293-7_31. short: Y. Nemcovsky, M. Jacoby, A.M. Bronstein, C. Baskin, in:, 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 518–534. conference: end_date: 2022-12-08 location: Macao, China name: 'ACCV: Asian Conference on Computer Vision' start_date: 2022-12-04 date_created: 2024-10-08T12:51:14Z date_published: 2023-03-11T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-10-09T12:13:36Z day: '11' doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-26293-7_31 extern: '1' external_id: arxiv: - '2207.05729' intvolume: ' 13847' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2207.05729 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 518-534 publication: 16th Asian Conference on Computer Vision publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031262937' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031262920' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - relation: software url: https://github.com/patchadversarialattacks/patchadversarialattacks scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Physical passive patch adversarial attacks on visual odometry systems type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13847 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12467' abstract: - lang: eng text: Safety and liveness are elementary concepts of computation, and the foundation of many verification paradigms. The safety-liveness classification of boolean properties characterizes whether a given property can be falsified by observing a finite prefix of an infinite computation trace (always for safety, never for liveness). In quantitative specification and verification, properties assign not truth values, but quantitative values to infinite traces (e.g., a cost, or the distance to a boolean property). We introduce quantitative safety and liveness, and we prove that our definitions induce conservative quantitative generalizations of both (1)~the safety-progress hierarchy of boolean properties and (2)~the safety-liveness decomposition of boolean properties. In particular, we show that every quantitative property can be written as the pointwise minimum of a quantitative safety property and a quantitative liveness property. Consequently, like boolean properties, also quantitative properties can be min-decomposed into safety and liveness parts, or alternatively, max-decomposed into co-safety and co-liveness parts. Moreover, quantitative properties can be approximated naturally. We prove that every quantitative property that has both safe and co-safe approximations can be monitored arbitrarily precisely by a monitor that uses only a finite number of states. acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Nicolas Adrien full_name: Mazzocchi, Nicolas Adrien id: b26baa86-3308-11ec-87b0-8990f34baa85 last_name: Mazzocchi - first_name: Naci E full_name: Sarac, Naci E id: 8C6B42F8-C8E6-11E9-A03A-F2DCE5697425 last_name: Sarac citation: ama: 'Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. Quantitative safety and liveness. In: 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures. Vol 13992. Springer Nature; 2023:349-370. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17' apa: 'Henzinger, T. A., Mazzocchi, N. A., & Sarac, N. E. (2023). Quantitative safety and liveness. In 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (Vol. 13992, pp. 349–370). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17' chicago: Henzinger, Thomas A, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E Sarac. “Quantitative Safety and Liveness.” In 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, 13992:349–70. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17. ieee: T. A. Henzinger, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “Quantitative safety and liveness,” in 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13992, pp. 349–370. ista: 'Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2023. Quantitative safety and liveness. 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures. FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, LNCS, vol. 13992, 349–370.' mla: Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Quantitative Safety and Liveness.” 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, vol. 13992, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 349–70, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17. short: T.A. Henzinger, N.A. Mazzocchi, N.E. Sarac, in:, 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 349–370. conference: end_date: 2023-04-27 location: Paris, France name: 'FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures' start_date: 2023-04-22 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-01-31T07:23:56Z date_published: 2023-04-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:21:08Z day: '21' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30829-1_17 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2301.11175' isi: - '001288609300017' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 981025aed580b6b27c426cb8856cf63e content_type: application/pdf creator: esarac date_created: 2023-01-31T07:22:21Z date_updated: 2023-01-31T07:22:21Z file_id: '12468' file_name: qsl.pdf file_size: 449027 relation: main_file success: 1 - access_level: open_access checksum: f16e2af1e0eb243158ab0f0fe74e7d5a content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-06-19T10:28:09Z date_updated: 2023-06-19T10:28:09Z file_id: '13153' file_name: 2023_LNCS_HenzingerT.pdf file_size: 1048171 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-06-19T10:28:09Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13992' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 349-370 project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software publication: 26th International Conference Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031308284' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Quantitative safety and liveness tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13992 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12854' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The main idea behind BUBAAK is to run multiple program analyses in parallel and use runtime monitoring and enforcement to observe and control their progress in real time. The analyses send information about (un)explored states of the program and discovered invariants to a monitor. The monitor processes the received data and can force an analysis to stop the search of certain program parts (which have already been analyzed by other analyses), or to make it utilize a program invariant found by another analysis.\r\nAt SV-COMP 2023, the implementation of data exchange between the monitor and the analyses was not yet completed, which is why BUBAAK only ran several analyses in parallel, without any coordination. Still, BUBAAK won the meta-category FalsificationOverall and placed very well in several other (sub)-categories of the competition." acknowledgement: This work was supported by the ERC-2020-AdG 10102009 grant. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Marek full_name: Chalupa, Marek id: 87e34708-d6c6-11ec-9f5b-9391e7be2463 last_name: Chalupa - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 citation: ama: 'Chalupa M, Henzinger TA. Bubaak: Runtime monitoring of program verifiers. In: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Vol 13994. Springer Nature; 2023:535-540. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_32' apa: 'Chalupa, M., & Henzinger, T. A. (2023). Bubaak: Runtime monitoring of program verifiers. In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (Vol. 13994, pp. 535–540). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_32' chicago: 'Chalupa, Marek, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Bubaak: Runtime Monitoring of Program Verifiers.” In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, 13994:535–40. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_32.' ieee: 'M. Chalupa and T. A. Henzinger, “Bubaak: Runtime monitoring of program verifiers,” in Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13994, pp. 535–540.' ista: 'Chalupa M, Henzinger TA. 2023. Bubaak: Runtime monitoring of program verifiers. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13994, 535–540.' mla: 'Chalupa, Marek, and Thomas A. Henzinger. “Bubaak: Runtime Monitoring of Program Verifiers.” Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, vol. 13994, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 535–40, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_32.' short: M. Chalupa, T.A. Henzinger, in:, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 535–540. conference: end_date: 2023-04-27 location: Paris, France name: 'TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2023-04-22 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-04-20T08:22:53Z date_published: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:24:56Z day: '20' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_32 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001288698100041' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 120d2c2a38384058ad0630fdf8288312 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-04-25T06:58:36Z date_updated: 2023-04-25T06:58:36Z file_id: '12864' file_name: 2023_LNCS_Chalupa.pdf file_size: 16096413 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-04-25T06:58:36Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13994' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 535-540 project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software publication: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031308208' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031308192' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Bubaak: Runtime monitoring of program verifiers' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13994 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '12856' abstract: - lang: eng text: "As the complexity and criticality of software increase every year, so does the importance of run-time monitoring. Third-party monitoring, with limited knowledge of the monitored software, and best-effort monitoring, which keeps pace with the monitored software, are especially valuable, yet underexplored areas of run-time monitoring. Most existing monitoring frameworks do not support their combination because they either require access to the monitored code for instrumentation purposes or the processing of all observed events, or both.\r\n\r\nWe present a middleware framework, VAMOS, for the run-time monitoring of software which is explicitly designed to support third-party and best-effort scenarios. The design goals of VAMOS are (i) efficiency (keeping pace at low overhead), (ii) flexibility (the ability to monitor black-box code through a variety of different event channels, and the connectability to monitors written in different specification languages), and (iii) ease-of-use. To achieve its goals, VAMOS combines aspects of event broker and event recognition systems with aspects of stream processing systems.\r\nWe implemented a prototype toolchain for VAMOS and conducted experiments including a case study of monitoring for data races. The results indicate that VAMOS enables writing useful yet efficient monitors, is compatible with a variety of event sources and monitor specifications, and simplifies key aspects of setting up a monitoring system from scratch." acknowledgement: This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093. The authors would like to thank the anonymous FASE reviewers for their valuable feedback and suggestions. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Marek full_name: Chalupa, Marek id: 87e34708-d6c6-11ec-9f5b-9391e7be2463 last_name: Chalupa - first_name: Fabian full_name: Mühlböck, Fabian id: 6395C5F6-89DF-11E9-9C97-6BDFE5697425 last_name: Mühlböck orcid: 0000-0003-1548-0177 - first_name: Stefanie full_name: Muroya Lei, Stefanie id: a376de31-8972-11ed-ae7b-d0251c13c8ff last_name: Muroya Lei - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 citation: ama: 'Chalupa M, Mühlböck F, Muroya Lei S, Henzinger TA. Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. In: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. Vol 13991. Springer Nature; 2023:260-281. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15' apa: 'Chalupa, M., Mühlböck, F., Muroya Lei, S., & Henzinger, T. A. (2023). Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. In Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (Vol. 13991, pp. 260–281). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15' chicago: 'Chalupa, Marek, Fabian Mühlböck, Stefanie Muroya Lei, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Vamos: Middleware for Best-Effort Third-Party Monitoring.” In Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, 13991:260–81. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15.' ieee: 'M. Chalupa, F. Mühlböck, S. Muroya Lei, and T. A. Henzinger, “Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring,” in Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13991, pp. 260–281.' ista: 'Chalupa M, Mühlböck F, Muroya Lei S, Henzinger TA. 2023. Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, LNCS, vol. 13991, 260–281.' mla: 'Chalupa, Marek, et al. “Vamos: Middleware for Best-Effort Third-Party Monitoring.” Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, vol. 13991, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 260–81, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15.' short: M. Chalupa, F. Mühlböck, S. Muroya Lei, T.A. Henzinger, in:, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 260–281. conference: end_date: 2023-04-27 location: Paris, France name: 'FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering' start_date: 2023-04-22 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-04-20T08:29:42Z date_published: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:25:29Z day: '20' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30826-0_15 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001284136600015' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 17a7c8e08be609cf2408d37ea55e322c content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-04-25T07:16:36Z date_updated: 2023-04-25T07:16:36Z file_id: '12865' file_name: 2023_LNCS_ChalupaM.pdf file_size: 580828 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-04-25T07:16:36Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13991' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 260-281 project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software publication: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031308260' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031308253' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '18169' relation: later_version status: public - id: '12407' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Vamos: Middleware for best-effort third-party monitoring' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13991 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13139' abstract: - lang: eng text: A classical problem for Markov chains is determining their stationary (or steady-state) distribution. This problem has an equally classical solution based on eigenvectors and linear equation systems. However, this approach does not scale to large instances, and iterative solutions are desirable. It turns out that a naive approach, as used by current model checkers, may yield completely wrong results. We present a new approach, which utilizes recent advances in partial exploration and mean payoff computation to obtain a correct, converging approximation. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Tobias full_name: Meggendorfer, Tobias id: b21b0c15-30a2-11eb-80dc-f13ca25802e1 last_name: Meggendorfer orcid: 0000-0002-1712-2165 citation: ama: 'Meggendorfer T. Correct approximation of stationary distributions. In: TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Vol 13993. Springer Nature; 2023:489-507. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_25' apa: 'Meggendorfer, T. (2023). Correct approximation of stationary distributions. In TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (Vol. 13993, pp. 489–507). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_25' chicago: 'Meggendorfer, Tobias. “Correct Approximation of Stationary Distributions.” In TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, 13993:489–507. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_25.' ieee: 'T. Meggendorfer, “Correct approximation of stationary distributions,” in TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13993, pp. 489–507.' ista: 'Meggendorfer T. 2023. Correct approximation of stationary distributions. TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13993, 489–507.' mla: 'Meggendorfer, Tobias. “Correct Approximation of Stationary Distributions.” TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, vol. 13993, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 489–507, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_25.' short: 'T. Meggendorfer, in:, TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 489–507.' conference: end_date: 2023-04-27 location: Paris, France name: 'TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2023-04-22 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-06-18T22:00:46Z date_published: 2023-04-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:28:12Z day: '22' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_25 external_id: arxiv: - '2301.08137' isi: - '001288688000025' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 59f707a3949c03793251b0d04c62542a content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-06-19T07:18:40Z date_updated: 2023-06-19T07:18:40Z file_id: '13148' file_name: 2023_LNCS_Meggendorfer.pdf file_size: 521951 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-06-19T07:18:40Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13993' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 489-507 publication: 'TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031308222' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14990' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Correct approximation of stationary distributions tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13993 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13141' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We automatically compute a new class of environment assumptions in two-player turn-based finite graph games which characterize an “adequate cooperation” needed from the environment to allow the system player to win. Given an ω-regular winning condition Φ for the system player, we compute an ω-regular assumption Ψ for the environment player, such that (i) every environment strategy compliant with Ψ allows the system to fulfill Φ (sufficiency), (ii) Ψ\r\n can be fulfilled by the environment for every strategy of the system (implementability), and (iii) Ψ does not prevent any cooperative strategy choice (permissiveness).\r\nFor parity games, which are canonical representations of ω-regular games, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for the symbolic computation of adequately permissive assumptions and show that our algorithm runs faster and produces better assumptions than existing approaches—both theoretically and empirically. To the best of our knowledge, for ω\r\n-regular games, we provide the first algorithm to compute sufficient and implementable environment assumptions that are also permissive." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ashwani full_name: Anand, Ashwani last_name: Anand - first_name: Kaushik full_name: Mallik, Kaushik id: 0834ff3c-6d72-11ec-94e0-b5b0a4fb8598 last_name: Mallik orcid: 0000-0001-9864-7475 - first_name: Satya Prakash full_name: Nayak, Satya Prakash last_name: Nayak - first_name: Anne Kathrin full_name: Schmuck, Anne Kathrin last_name: Schmuck citation: ama: 'Anand A, Mallik K, Nayak SP, Schmuck AK. Computing adequately permissive assumptions for synthesis. In: TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Vol 13994. Springer Nature; 2023:211-228. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_15' apa: 'Anand, A., Mallik, K., Nayak, S. P., & Schmuck, A. K. (2023). Computing adequately permissive assumptions for synthesis. In TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (Vol. 13994, pp. 211–228). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_15' chicago: 'Anand, Ashwani, Kaushik Mallik, Satya Prakash Nayak, and Anne Kathrin Schmuck. “Computing Adequately Permissive Assumptions for Synthesis.” In TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, 13994:211–28. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_15.' ieee: 'A. Anand, K. Mallik, S. P. Nayak, and A. K. Schmuck, “Computing adequately permissive assumptions for synthesis,” in TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13994, pp. 211–228.' ista: 'Anand A, Mallik K, Nayak SP, Schmuck AK. 2023. Computing adequately permissive assumptions for synthesis. TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13994, 211–228.' mla: 'Anand, Ashwani, et al. “Computing Adequately Permissive Assumptions for Synthesis.” TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, vol. 13994, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 211–28, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_15.' short: 'A. Anand, K. Mallik, S.P. Nayak, A.K. Schmuck, in:, TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 211–228.' conference: end_date: 2023-04-27 location: Paris, France name: 'TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2023-04-22 date_created: 2023-06-18T22:00:47Z date_published: 2023-04-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:30:00Z day: '20' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30820-8_15 external_id: isi: - '001288698100015' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 60dcafc1b4f6f070be43bad3fe877974 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-06-19T08:43:21Z date_updated: 2023-06-19T08:43:21Z file_id: '13151' file_name: 2023_LNCS_Anand.pdf file_size: 521425 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-06-19T08:43:21Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13994' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 211-228 publication: 'TACAS 2023: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031308192' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Computing adequately permissive assumptions for synthesis tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13994 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13142' abstract: - lang: eng text: Reinforcement learning has received much attention for learning controllers of deterministic systems. We consider a learner-verifier framework for stochastic control systems and survey recent methods that formally guarantee a conjunction of reachability and safety properties. Given a property and a lower bound on the probability of the property being satisfied, our framework jointly learns a control policy and a formal certificate to ensure the satisfaction of the property with a desired probability threshold. Both the control policy and the formal certificate are continuous functions from states to reals, which are learned as parameterized neural networks. While in the deterministic case, the certificates are invariant and barrier functions for safety, or Lyapunov and ranking functions for liveness, in the stochastic case the certificates are supermartingales. For certificate verification, we use interval arithmetic abstract interpretation to bound the expected values of neural network functions. acknowledgement: This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093, ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Mathias full_name: Lechner, Mathias id: 3DC22916-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lechner - first_name: Dorde full_name: Zikelic, Dorde id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zikelic orcid: 0000-0002-4681-1699 citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Lechner M, Zikelic D. A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. In: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems . Vol 13993. Springer Nature; 2023:3-25. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Lechner, M., & Zikelic, D. (2023). A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (Vol. 13993, pp. 3–25). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Mathias Lechner, and Dorde Zikelic. “A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems.” In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , 13993:3–25. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1. ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, and D. Zikelic, “A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems,” in Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13993, pp. 3–25. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Lechner M, Zikelic D. 2023. A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems . TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 13993, 3–25.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “A Learner-Verifier Framework for Neural Network Controllers and Certificates of Stochastic Systems.” Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , vol. 13993, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 3–25, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1. short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems , Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 3–25. conference: end_date: 2023-04-27 location: Paris, France name: 'TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2023-04-22 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-06-18T22:00:47Z date_published: 2023-04-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:29:26Z day: '22' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30823-9_1 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001288688000001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 3d8a8bb24d211bc83360dfc2fd744307 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-06-19T08:29:30Z date_updated: 2023-06-19T08:29:30Z file_id: '13150' file_name: 2023_LNCS_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 528455 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-06-19T08:29:30Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13993' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 3-25 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication: 'Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems ' publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031308222' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A learner-verifier framework for neural network controllers and certificates of stochastic systems tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13993 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13236' abstract: - lang: eng text: We present an auction algorithm using multiplicative instead of constant weight updates to compute a (1−ε)-approximate maximum weight matching (MWM) in a bipartite graph with n vertices and m edges in time O(mε−1log(ε−1)), matching the running time of the linear-time approximation algorithm of Duan and Pettie [JACM ’14]. Our algorithm is very simple and it can be extended to give a dynamic data structure that maintains a (1−ε)-approximate maximum weight matching under (1) one-sided vertex deletions (with incident edges) and (2) one-sided vertex insertions (with incident edges sorted by weight) to the other side. The total time time used is O(mε−1log(ε−1)), where m is the sum of the number of initially existing and inserted edges. acknowledgement: The first author thanks to Chandra Chekuri for useful discussions about this paper. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 101019564 “The Design of Modern Fully Dynamic Data Structures (MoDynStruct)” and from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project “Fast Algorithms for a Reactive Network Layer (ReactNet)”, P 33775-N, with additional funding from the netidee SCIENCE Stiftung, 2020–2024. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Da Wei full_name: Zheng, Da Wei last_name: Zheng - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 citation: ama: 'Zheng DW, Henzinger M. Multiplicative auction algorithm for approximate maximum weight bipartite matching. In: International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. Vol 13904. Springer Nature; 2023:453-465. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32726-1_32' apa: 'Zheng, D. W., & Henzinger, M. (2023). Multiplicative auction algorithm for approximate maximum weight bipartite matching. In International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (Vol. 13904, pp. 453–465). Madison, WI, United States: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32726-1_32' chicago: Zheng, Da Wei, and Monika Henzinger. “Multiplicative Auction Algorithm for Approximate Maximum Weight Bipartite Matching.” In International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, 13904:453–65. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32726-1_32. ieee: D. W. Zheng and M. Henzinger, “Multiplicative auction algorithm for approximate maximum weight bipartite matching,” in International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Madison, WI, United States, 2023, vol. 13904, pp. 453–465. ista: 'Zheng DW, Henzinger M. 2023. Multiplicative auction algorithm for approximate maximum weight bipartite matching. International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization. IPCO: Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, LNCS, vol. 13904, 453–465.' mla: Zheng, Da Wei, and Monika Henzinger. “Multiplicative Auction Algorithm for Approximate Maximum Weight Bipartite Matching.” International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, vol. 13904, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 453–65, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32726-1_32. short: D.W. Zheng, M. Henzinger, in:, International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 453–465. conference: end_date: 2023-06-23 location: Madison, WI, United States name: 'IPCO: Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization' start_date: 2023-06-21 date_created: 2023-07-16T22:01:11Z date_published: 2023-05-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T12:39:59Z day: '22' department: - _id: MoHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32726-1_32 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2301.09217' isi: - '001281059600032' intvolume: ' 13904' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.09217 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 453-465 project: - _id: bd9ca328-d553-11ed-ba76-dc4f890cfe62 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101019564' name: The design and evaluation of modern fully dynamic data structures - _id: bd9e3a2e-d553-11ed-ba76-8aa684ce17fe grant_number: P33775 name: Fast Algorithms for a Reactive Network Layer publication: International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031327254' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '15121' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Multiplicative auction algorithm for approximate maximum weight bipartite matching type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13904 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '13310' abstract: - lang: eng text: Machine-learned systems are in widespread use for making decisions about humans, and it is important that they are fair, i.e., not biased against individuals based on sensitive attributes. We present runtime verification of algorithmic fairness for systems whose models are unknown, but are assumed to have a Markov chain structure. We introduce a specification language that can model many common algorithmic fairness properties, such as demographic parity, equal opportunity, and social burden. We build monitors that observe a long sequence of events as generated by a given system, and output, after each observation, a quantitative estimate of how fair or biased the system was on that run until that point in time. The estimate is proven to be correct modulo a variable error bound and a given confidence level, where the error bound gets tighter as the observed sequence gets longer. Our monitors are of two types, and use, respectively, frequentist and Bayesian statistical inference techniques. While the frequentist monitors compute estimates that are objectively correct with respect to the ground truth, the Bayesian monitors compute estimates that are correct subject to a given prior belief about the system’s model. Using a prototype implementation, we show how we can monitor if a bank is fair in giving loans to applicants from different social backgrounds, and if a college is fair in admitting students while maintaining a reasonable financial burden on the society. Although they exhibit different theoretical complexities in certain cases, in our experiments, both frequentist and Bayesian monitors took less than a millisecond to update their verdicts after each observation. acknowledgement: 'This work is supported by the European Research Council under Grant No.: ERC-2020-AdG101020093.' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) arxiv: 1 author: - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Mahyar full_name: Karimi, Mahyar id: 6e5417ba-5355-11ee-ae5a-94c2e510b26b last_name: Karimi orcid: 0009-0005-0820-1696 - first_name: Konstantin full_name: Kueffner, Konstantin id: 8121a2d0-dc85-11ea-9058-af578f3b4515 last_name: Kueffner orcid: 0000-0001-8974-2542 - first_name: Kaushik full_name: Mallik, Kaushik id: 0834ff3c-6d72-11ec-94e0-b5b0a4fb8598 last_name: Mallik orcid: 0000-0001-9864-7475 citation: ama: 'Henzinger TA, Karimi M, Kueffner K, Mallik K. Monitoring algorithmic fairness. In: Computer Aided Verification. Vol 13965. Springer Nature; 2023:358–382. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_17' apa: 'Henzinger, T. A., Karimi, M., Kueffner, K., & Mallik, K. (2023). Monitoring algorithmic fairness. In Computer Aided Verification (Vol. 13965, pp. 358–382). Paris, France: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_17' chicago: Henzinger, Thomas A, Mahyar Karimi, Konstantin Kueffner, and Kaushik Mallik. “Monitoring Algorithmic Fairness.” In Computer Aided Verification, 13965:358–382. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_17. ieee: T. A. Henzinger, M. Karimi, K. Kueffner, and K. Mallik, “Monitoring algorithmic fairness,” in Computer Aided Verification, Paris, France, 2023, vol. 13965, pp. 358–382. ista: 'Henzinger TA, Karimi M, Kueffner K, Mallik K. 2023. Monitoring algorithmic fairness. Computer Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 13965, 358–382.' mla: Henzinger, Thomas A., et al. “Monitoring Algorithmic Fairness.” Computer Aided Verification, vol. 13965, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 358–382, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_17. short: T.A. Henzinger, M. Karimi, K. Kueffner, K. Mallik, in:, Computer Aided Verification, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 358–382. conference: end_date: 2023-07-22 location: Paris, France name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification' start_date: 2023-07-17 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2023-07-25T18:32:40Z date_published: 2023-07-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2026-01-21T07:24:31Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37703-7_17 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2305.15979' isi: - '001310804800017' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ccaf94bf7d658ba012c016e11869b54c content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-07-31T08:11:20Z date_updated: 2023-07-31T08:11:20Z file_id: '13327' file_name: 2023_LNCS_CAV_HenzingerT.pdf file_size: 647760 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-07-31T08:11:20Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13965' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 358–382 project: - _id: 62781420-2b32-11ec-9570-8d9b63373d4d call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '101020093' name: Vigilant Algorithmic Monitoring of Software publication: Computer Aided Verification publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031377037' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031377020' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Monitoring algorithmic fairness tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13965 year: '2023' ... --- OA_type: closed access _id: '19985' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider a natural problem dealing with weighted packet selection across a rechargeable link, which e.g., finds applications in cryptocurrency networks. The capacity of a link (u, v) is determined by how much nodes u and v allocate for this link. Specifically, the input is a finite ordered sequence of packets that arrive in both directions along a link. Given (u, v) and a packet of weight x going from u to v, node u can either accept or reject the packet. If u accepts the packet, the capacity on link (u, v) decreases by x. Correspondingly, v’s capacity on (u, v) increases by x. If a node rejects the packet, this will entail a cost affinely linear in the weight of the packet. A link is “rechargeable” in the sense that the total capacity of the link has to remain constant, but the allocation of capacity at the ends of the link can depend arbitrarily on the nodes’ decisions. The goal is to minimise the sum of the capacity injected into the link and the cost of rejecting packets. We show that the problem is NP-hard, but can be approximated efficiently with a ratio of (1 + E) . (1 + square3) for some arbitrary E>0. acknowledgement: We thank Mahsa Bastankhah and Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali for fruitful discussions about different variants of the problem. This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Project 864228 (AdjustNet), 2020-2025, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant 470029389 (FlexNets), 2021–2024. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Stefan full_name: Schmid, Stefan last_name: Schmid - first_name: Jakub full_name: Svoboda, Jakub id: 130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425 last_name: Svoboda orcid: 0000-0002-1419-3267 - first_name: Michelle X full_name: Yeo, Michelle X id: 2D82B818-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Yeo orcid: 0009-0001-3676-4809 citation: ama: 'Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. Weighted acket selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation. In: 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity. Vol 13892. Springer Nature; 2023:576-594. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26' apa: 'Schmid, S., Svoboda, J., & Yeo, M. X. (2023). Weighted acket selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation. In 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (Vol. 13892, pp. 576–594). Alcalá de Henares, Spain: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26' chicago: 'Schmid, Stefan, Jakub Svoboda, and Michelle X Yeo. “Weighted Acket Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.” In 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, 13892:576–94. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26.' ieee: 'S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, and M. X. Yeo, “Weighted acket selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation,” in 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2023, vol. 13892, pp. 576–594.' ista: 'Schmid S, Svoboda J, Yeo MX. 2023. Weighted acket selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation. 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO: International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, LNCS, vol. 13892, 576–594.' mla: 'Schmid, Stefan, et al. “Weighted Acket Selection for Rechargeable Links in Cryptocurrency Networks: Complexity and Approximation.” 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, vol. 13892, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 576–94, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26.' short: S. Schmid, J. Svoboda, M.X. Yeo, in:, 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 576–594. conference: end_date: 2023-06-09 location: Alcalá de Henares, Spain name: 'SIROCCO: International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity' start_date: 2023-06-06 corr_author: '1' date_created: 2025-07-10T13:15:43Z date_published: 2023-05-25T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-12-02T14:02:38Z day: '25' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: KrPi doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_26 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '001292782600026' intvolume: ' 13892' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa_version: None page: 576-594 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031327339' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031327322' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14820' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Weighted acket selection for rechargeable links in cryptocurrency networks: Complexity and approximation' type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13892 year: '2023' ... --- _id: '14744' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Sharding distributed ledgers is a promising on-chain solution for scaling blockchains but lacks formal grounds, nurturing skepticism on whether such complex systems can scale blockchains securely. We fill this gap by introducing the first formal framework as well as a roadmap to robust sharding. In particular, we first define the properties sharded distributed ledgers should fulfill. We build upon and extend the Bitcoin backbone protocol by defining consistency and scalability. Consistency encompasses the need for atomic execution of cross-shard transactions to preserve safety, whereas scalability encapsulates the speedup a sharded system can gain in comparison to a non-sharded system.\r\nUsing our model, we explore the limitations of sharding. We show that a sharded ledger with n participants cannot scale under a fully adaptive adversary, but it can scale up to m shards where n=c'm log m, under an epoch-adaptive adversary; the constant c' encompasses the trade-off between security and scalability. This is possible only if the sharded ledgers create succinct proofs of the valid state updates at every epoch. We leverage our results to identify the sufficient components for robust sharding, which we incorporate in a protocol abstraction termed Divide & Scale. To demonstrate the power of our framework, we analyze the most prominent sharded blockchains (Elastico, Monoxide, OmniLedger, RapidChain) and pinpoint where they fail to meet the desired properties." acknowledgement: The work was partially supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the project CoRaF (grant agreement 2020388). alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Zeta full_name: Avarikioti, Zeta last_name: Avarikioti - first_name: Antoine full_name: Desjardins, Antoine id: 06d0c166-aec1-11ee-a7c0-b96e840a602b last_name: Desjardins - first_name: Eleftherios full_name: Kokoris Kogias, Eleftherios id: f5983044-d7ef-11ea-ac6d-fd1430a26d30 last_name: Kokoris Kogias - first_name: Roger full_name: Wattenhofer, Roger last_name: Wattenhofer citation: ama: 'Avarikioti Z, Desjardins A, Kokoris Kogias E, Wattenhofer R. Divide & Scale: Formalization and roadmap to robust sharding. In: 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity. Vol 13892. Springer Nature; 2023:199-245. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_10' apa: 'Avarikioti, Z., Desjardins, A., Kokoris Kogias, E., & Wattenhofer, R. (2023). Divide & Scale: Formalization and roadmap to robust sharding. In 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (Vol. 13892, pp. 199–245). Alcalá de Henares, Spain: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_10' chicago: 'Avarikioti, Zeta, Antoine Desjardins, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, and Roger Wattenhofer. “Divide & Scale: Formalization and Roadmap to Robust Sharding.” In 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, 13892:199–245. Springer Nature, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_10.' ieee: 'Z. Avarikioti, A. Desjardins, E. Kokoris Kogias, and R. Wattenhofer, “Divide & Scale: Formalization and roadmap to robust sharding,” in 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2023, vol. 13892, pp. 199–245.' ista: 'Avarikioti Z, Desjardins A, Kokoris Kogias E, Wattenhofer R. 2023. Divide & Scale: Formalization and roadmap to robust sharding. 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO: Structural Information and Communication Complexity, LNCS, vol. 13892, 199–245.' mla: 'Avarikioti, Zeta, et al. “Divide & Scale: Formalization and Roadmap to Robust Sharding.” 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, vol. 13892, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 199–245, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_10.' short: Z. Avarikioti, A. Desjardins, E. Kokoris Kogias, R. Wattenhofer, in:, 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, Springer Nature, 2023, pp. 199–245. conference: end_date: 2023-06-09 location: Alcalá de Henares, Spain name: 'SIROCCO: Structural Information and Communication Complexity' start_date: 2023-06-06 date_created: 2024-01-08T12:56:46Z date_published: 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2025-09-09T14:10:46Z day: '01' department: - _id: ElKo doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-32733-9_10 external_id: isi: - '001292782600010' intvolume: ' 13892' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa_version: None page: 199-245 publication: 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783031327339' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783031327322' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Divide & Scale: Formalization and roadmap to robust sharding' type: conference user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345 volume: 13892 year: '2023' ...