Concurrent statistical zero-knowledge arguments for NP from one way functions

  • Authors:
  • Vipul Goyal;Ryan Moriarty;Rafail Ostrovsky;Amit Sahai

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Los Angeles;University of California, Los Angeles;University of California, Los Angeles;University of California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • ASIACRYPT'07 Proceedings of the Advances in Crypotology 13th international conference on Theory and application of cryptology and information security
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we show a general transformation from any honest verifier statistical zero-knowledge argument to a concurrent statistical zero-knowledge argument. Our transformation relies only on the existence of one-way functions. It is known that the existence of zero-knowledge systems for any non-trivial language implies one way functions. Hence our transformation unconditionally shows that concurrent statistical zero-knowledge arguments for a non-trivial language exist if and only if standalone secure statistical zero-knowledge arguments for that language exist. Further, applying our transformation to the recent statistical zero-knowledge argument system of Nguyen et al (STOC'06) yields the first concurrent statistical zero-knowledge argument system for all languages in NP from any one way function.