OreProof: Verifiable Provenance with Limited Disclosure for Critical-Minerals Supply Chains Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Zero-knowledge proof framework lets critical-mineral supply chains prove regulatory provenance without disclosing sensitive commercial data — a model transferable to other regulated sectors.
Summary written by editorial AI · Source link below
arXiv:2609.00340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critical-minerals supply chains face a structural tension: regulators and buyers demand verifiable provenance, yet upstream actors are hesitant to disclose supplier identities, assay grades/yields, and prices that verification appears to require. We report a design science account of OreProof, a prototypical traceability platform addressing this verifiability-disclosure trade-off. Instantiated for gold, OreProof combines a hybrid on-chain/off-chai
Editorial Analysis
EU due-diligence regulations increasingly demand supply-chain transparency; ZKP-based approaches could resolve the tension between disclosure and commercial confidentiality.
Forward-looking interpretation drafted by editorial AI under human review — not a reproduction of the source. See methodology.
External link — opens at arXiv Crypto & Security in a new tab.
More from the Research Desk
- 39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication3d
- Security Vulnerability in a Voting System3d
- Selfie-Capture Dynamics as an Auxiliary Signal Against Deepfakes and Injection Attacks for Mobile Identity Verification4d
- How Reliable Is the Multi-Input Heuristic for Bitcoin Address Clustering in Law Enforcement Contexts?4d
- Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning: Gradient-Based Client Identity Inference and Defenses for Inertial Sensing in Vehicular Edge Networks4d