ISSTA 2025
Wed 25 - Sat 28 June 2025 Trondheim, Norway
co-located with FSE 2025
Sat 28 Jun 2025 10:20 - 10:30 at Cosmos 3C - Morning 1

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) have evolved from a theoretical cryptographic concept into a powerful tool for implementing privacy-preserving and verifiable applications without requiring trust assumptions. Despite significant progress in the field, implementing and using ZKPs via \emph{ZKP circuits} remains challenging, leading to numerous bugs that affect ZKP circuits in practice, and \emph{fuzzing} remains largely unexplored as a method to detect bugs in ZKP circuits. We discuss the unique challenges of applying fuzzing to ZKP circuits, examine the oracle problem and its potential solutions, and propose techniques for input generation and test harness construction. We demonstrate that fuzzing can be effective in this domain by implementing a fuzzer for \textit{zk-regex}, a cornerstone library in modern ZKP applications. In our case study, we discovered \textit{$10$} new bugs that have been confirmed by the developers.

Sat 28 Jun

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09:00 - 10:30
Morning 1FUZZING at Cosmos 3C
09:00
10m
Day opening
Welcome
FUZZING

09:10
50m
Keynote
Keynote: Constraining Fuzzing without Paying Too Much
FUZZING
Miryung Kim UCLA and Amazon Web Services
10:00
10m
Talk
Personalized Fuzzing: A Case Study with the FANDANGO Fuzzer on a GNSS Module
FUZZING
Stephan Neuhaus ZHAW School of Engineering, José Antonio Zamudio Amaya CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Andreas Zeller CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
10:10
10m
Talk
Hybrid Fuzzing of Infrastructure as Code Programs
FUZZING
Emilio Coppa LUISS University, Daniel Sokolowski University of St. Gallen, Guido Salvaneschi University of St. Gallen
10:20
10m
Talk
Towards Fuzzing Zero-Knowledge Proof Circuits
FUZZING
Stefanos Chaliasos Imperial College London, Imam Al-Fath ZKSecurity, Alastair F. Donaldson Imperial College London

Information for Participants
Sat 28 Jun 2025 09:00 - 10:30 at Cosmos 3C - Morning 1
Info for room Cosmos 3C:

Cosmos 3C is the third room in the Cosmos 3 wing.

When facing the main Cosmos Hall, access to the Cosmos 3 wing is on the left, close to the stairs. The area is accessed through a large door with the number “3”, which will stay open during the event.

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