Lie to Me: Finding Bugs in ZK DSL Toolchains with Adversarial Witness Injection

arXiv:2608.30648 · cs.CR, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-31 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-31

Updated: 2026-08-31

Code: https://github.com/LFDT-Lineth/zkc

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Formal Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Formal Methods — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• zkCraft: Prompt-Guided LLM as a Zero-Shot Mutation Pattern Oracle for TCCT-Powered ZK Fuzzing
• ZKP Security Tools and Verification: Coverage, Effectiveness, Adoption, and Challenges

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