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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
James R. Kraemer, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Jeb R. Linton, Manassas, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A trusted network based service running on a server, for example as a cloud server, includes receiving a request from a first user device and a second user device. The request includes one or more inputs to perform a stateless transaction based on combinational logic. An output of the combinational logic is a function of only the one or more inputs. Based upon the request, a program is selected from a set of a plurality of programs using zero-knowledge verifiable computing to carry out the transaction. The program is executed using zero-knowledge verifiable computing. The execution of the program out the transaction based on combinational logic with the one or more inputs using a zero-knowledge protocol to ensure privacy of the first user device and the second user device. The output of the combinational logic along with proof from the zero-knowledge protocol that the combinational logic was executed without alteration.