Bootle, J;
Cerulli, A;
Chaidos, P;
Groth, J;
Petit, C;
(2016)
Efficient Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Arithmetic Circuits in the Discrete Log Setting.
In: Fischlin, M and Coron, JS, (eds.)
Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2016.
(pp. pp. 327-357).
Springer Nature
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Abstract
We provide a zero-knowledge argument for arithmetic circuit satisfiability with a communication complexity that grows logarithmically in the size of the circuit. The round complexity is also logarithmic and for an arithmetic circuit with fan-in 2 gates the computation of the prover and verifier is linear in the size of the circuit. The soundness of our argument relies solely on the well-established discrete logarithm assumption in prime order groups. At the heart of our new argument system is an efficient zero-knowledge argument of knowledge of openings of two Pedersen multicommitments satisfying an inner product relation, which is of independent interest. The inner product argument requires logarithmic communication, logarithmic interaction and linear computation for both the prover and the verifier. We also develop a scheme to commit to a polynomial and later reveal the evaluation at an arbitrary point, in a verifiable manner. This is used to build an optimized version of the constant round square root complexity argument of Groth (CRYPTO 2009), which reduces both communication and round complexity.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Efficient Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Arithmetic Circuits in the Discrete Log Setting |
| Event: | 35th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques |
| Location: | Vienna, Austria |
| Dates: | 8th-12th May 2016 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-662-49895-8 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_12 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_12 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Sigma-protocol, Zero-knowledge argument, Arithmetic circuit, Discrete logarithm assumption |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10090338 |
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