Paper 2026/888

BlindReview: Anonymous and End-to-End Verifiable Peer Review

Ashley Fraser, Lancaster University

Elizabeth A. Quaglia, Royal Holloway University of London

Abstract

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.

@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}
}