Paper 2026/888
BlindReview: Anonymous and End-to-End Verifiable Peer Review
, INSA Centre Val de Loire, Lancaster University, Royal Holloway University of LondonAbstract
We introduce BlindReview, an anonymous and end-to-end verifiable peer review system that cryptographically guarantees both privacy and auditability throughout the reviewing process. We formally define these security properties and provide rigorous proofs that BlindReview satisfies them. We also present an implementation demonstrating our protocol’s practicality. This work serves as a foundation for verifiable and privacy-preserving peer review, offering a concrete solution to enhance transparency and reduce bias in the academic peer review process.
Note: This is the full version of the paper published at IEEE CSF.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Major revision. IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium
- Keywords
- Peer reviewprivacyanonymityverifiability
- Contact author(s)
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xavier bultel @ insa-cvl fr
a fraser5 @ lancaster ac uk
Elizabeth Quaglia @ rhul ac uk - History
- 2026-05-09: approved
- 2026-05-06: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2026/888
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2026/888,
author = {Xavier Bultel and Ashley Fraser and Elizabeth A. Quaglia},
title = {{BlindReview}: Anonymous and End-to-End Verifiable Peer Review},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2026/888},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/888}
}
