Paper 2003/105 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2003/105 ↗

On Diophantine Complexity and Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments

Helger Lipmaa
Abstract

We show how to construct practical honest-verifier statistical zero-knowledge \emph{Diophantine} arguments of knowledge (HVSZK AoK) that a committed tuple of integers belongs to an arbitrary language in bounded arithmetic. While doing this, we propose a new algorithm for computing the Lagrange representation of nonnegative integers and a new efficient representing polynomial for the exponential relation. We apply our results by constructing the most efficient known HVSZK AoK for non-negativity and the first constant-round practical HVSZK AoK for exponential relation. Finally, we propose the outsourcing model for cryptographic protocols and design communication-efficient versions of the Damgård-Jurik multi-candidate voting scheme and of the Lipmaa-Asokan-Niemi $(b+1)$st-price auction scheme that work in this model.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2003-09-05: last updated
2003-05-29: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2003/105
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/105,
      author = {Helger Lipmaa},
      title = {On Diophantine Complexity and Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/105},
      year = {2003},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/105}
}
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