Mikhail Volkhov

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Security and privacy · 3 · 3 since 2021
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Updatable Privacy-Preserving Blueprints
Bernardo Machado David, Felix Engelmann, Tore Kasper Frederiksen, Markulf Kohlweiss, Elena Pagnin, Mikhail Volkhov
ASIACRYPT (1)6
2022 Zswap: zk-SNARK Based Non-Interactive Multi-Asset Swaps
abstract
Privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies, like Zcash or Monero, provide fair transaction anonymity and confidentiality, but lack important features compared to fully public systems, like Ethereum. Specifically, supporting assets of multiple types and providing a mechanism to atomically exchange them, which is critical for e.g. decentralized finance (DeFi), is challenging in the private setting. By combining insights and security properties from Zcash and SwapCT (PETS 21, an atomic swap system for Monero), we present a simple zk-SNARKs based transaction scheme, called Zswap, which is carefully malleable to allow the merging of transactions, while preserving anonymity. Our protocol enables multiple assets and atomic exchanges by making use of sparse homomorphic commitments with aggregated open randomness, together with Zcash friendly simulation-extractable non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proofs. This results in a provably secure privacypreserving transaction protocol, with efficient swaps, and overall performance close to that of existing deployed private cryptocurrencies. It is similar to Zcash Sapling and benefits from existing code-bases and implementation expertise.
Felix Engelmann, Thomas Kerber, Markulf Kohlweiss, Mikhail Volkhov
Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.4
2021 Snarky Ceremonies
Markulf Kohlweiss, Mary Maller, Janno Siim, Mikhail Volkhov
ASIACRYPT (3)4