gentle fork – Can ZKP assist make PQC schemes extra block house and validation time environment friendly?

My understanding of PQC (Put up Quantum Cryptography) schemes is that they usually require a number of of the next:

1. very giant public keys
2. very giant signatures
3. very gradual validation time

This could dramatically cut back blockchain throughput, if we want to maintain node validation sources fixed (i.e. not improve the block measurement and never enable worst case block validation time to extend considerably).

As well as, the ({hardware}) wallets that produce such signatures might should be extra highly effective, however I am not involved about that right here.

On the identical time there’s a lot pleasure about ZKPs (Zero Data Proofs) in that they’re doubtlessly house environment friendly and low-cost to confirm.

Each PQC and ZKP require future gentle forks to make them sensible for particular person use.

This begs the query whether or not you possibly can mix these. If Bitcoin had been to have a gentle fork that makes ZKP sensible, both with a direct op code or via environment friendly covenant assist, can that be used to implement PQC?

I can think about not less than two caveats:

1. the selection of ZKP provides a further cryptographic assumption
2. if the ZKP (covenant) is challenge-response based mostly, the worst case footprint would nonetheless be an issue

However is that every one?

My understanding of PQC (Put up Quantum Cryptography) schemes is that they usually require a number of of the next:

1. very giant public keys
2. very giant signatures
3. very gradual validation time

This could dramatically cut back blockchain throughput, if we want to maintain node validation sources fixed (i.e. not improve the block measurement and never enable worst case block validation time to extend considerably).

As well as, the ({hardware}) wallets that produce such signatures might should be extra highly effective, however I am not involved about that right here.

On the identical time there’s a lot pleasure about ZKPs (Zero Data Proofs) in that they’re doubtlessly house environment friendly and low-cost to confirm.

Each PQC and ZKP require future gentle forks to make them sensible for particular person use.

This begs the query whether or not you possibly can mix these. If Bitcoin had been to have a gentle fork that makes ZKP sensible, both with a direct op code or via environment friendly covenant assist, can that be used to implement PQC?

I can think about not less than two caveats:

1. the selection of ZKP provides a further cryptographic assumption
2. if the ZKP (covenant) is challenge-response based mostly, the worst case footprint would nonetheless be an issue

However is that every one?