Constant-Round Concurrent Non-malleable Zero Knowledge in the Bare Public-Key Model

  • Authors:
  • Rafail Ostrovsky;Giuseppe Persiano;Ivan Visconti

  • Affiliations:
  • UCLA, Los Angeles, USA CA 90095;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy 84084;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy 84084

  • Venue:
  • ICALP '08 Proceedings of the 35th international colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Part II
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

One of the central questions in Cryptography is the design of round-efficient protocols that are secure under concurrent man-in-the-middle attacks. In this paper we present the first constant-round concurrent non-malleable zero-knowledgeargument system for NPin the Bare Public-Key model [Canetti et al., STOC 2000], resolving one of the major open problems in this area. To achieve our result, we introduce and study the notion of non-malleable witness indistinguishability, which is of independent interest. Previous results either achieved relaxed forms of concurrency/security or needed stronger setup assumptions or required a non-constant round complexity.