Proofs that yield nothing but their validity and a methodology of cryptographic protocol design

  • Authors:
  • Oded Goldreich;Silvio Micali;Avi Wigderson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '86 Proceedings of the 27th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate the generality and wide applicability of zero-knowledge proofs, a notion introduced by Goldwasser, Micali and Rackoff. These are probabilistic and interactive proofs that, for the members x of a language L, efficiently demonstrate membership in the language without conveying any additional knowledge. So far, zero-knowledge proofs were known only for some number theoretic languages in NP ∩ Co-NP.