Concurrently Non-malleable Black-Box Zero Knowledge in the Bare Public-Key Model

  • Authors:
  • Yi Deng;Giovanni Crescenzo;Dongdai Lin;Dengguo Feng

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing, China 100190;Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, USA;State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing, China 100190;State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of sciences, Beijing, China 100190

  • Venue:
  • CSR '09 Proceedings of the Fourth International Computer Science Symposium in Russia on Computer Science - Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we study the possibility of reducing the setup assumptions under which concurrent non-malleable zero knowledge protocol can be realized. A natural model choice is the bare public-key (BPK) model of [6], a model with very minimal setup assumptions. Our main contribution is to show in this model the following about constant-round concurrent non-malleable black-box zero-knowledge arguments. They can be constructed from any one-way function for any language in $\mathcal{NP}$. Here, our construction takes 5 rounds, and we can reduce it to a 4-round (round-optimal) argument under existence of one-way permutations. Under number-theoretic assumptions, they admit a time-efficient instantiation for some specific $\mathcal{NP}$ languages (e.g., all languages having efficient Σ protocols, for which we can implement our construction using only $\mathcal{O}(1)$ modular exponentiations). Compared to the non-black-box construction in a concurrent work of [OPV, ICALP 2008] in this model, our protocol (even the construction from one-way function) is significantly more time- and round-efficient and can be based on more general assumptions.