Lie to Me: Finding Bugs in ZK DSL Toolchains with Adversarial Witness Injection
Adversarial witness injection uncovers soundness bugs in zero-knowledge DSL toolchains where enforced constraints diverge from source-program semantics — relevant for enterprises building on ZK-proof infrastructure.
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arXiv:2608.30648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-knowledge domain-specific language (ZK DSL) toolchains compile programs into constraint systems and generate witnesses for cryptographic proofs. Bugs in these toolchains can leave the enforced constraints weaker than the source-program semantics, admitting proofs for invalid executions. Such soundness bugs may remain invisible to valid-execution testing because all valid executions still behave correctly. We present Liezz, a testing framewo
Editorial Analysis
Organisations relying on ZK proofs for privacy or integrity guarantees may be exposed if their toolchains silently weaken the underlying constraints.
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