On the concurrent composition of zero-knowledge proofs

  • Authors:
  • Ransom Richardson;Joe Kilian

  • Affiliations:
  • Groove Networks, Beverly, MA;NEC Research Institute

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'99 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We examine the concurrent composition of zero-knowledge proofs. By concurrent composition, we indicate a single prover that is involved in multiple, simultaneous zero-knowledge proofs with one or multiple verifiers. Under this type of composition it is believed that standard zero-knowledge protocols are no longer zero-knowledge. We show that, modulo certain complexity assumptions, any statement in NP has kƐ-round proofs and arguments in which one can efficiently simulate any kO(1) concurrent executions of the protocol.