Slice Validation requires that a slice properly forwards traffic along the slice, but also that it does not leak information about the slice itself.  To this end, SABRES uses Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge proofs to enforce a provable forwarding path.

The slice validation lead is Srivatsan Ravi.

Publications

• W. Jin, E. Kline, T. K. Satish Kumar, L. Thurlow and S. Ravi, “P3V: Privacy-Preserving Path Validation System for Multi-Authority Sliced Networks”, Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/053. 2023. url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/053.