You can prove so many things in zero-knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Giovanni Di Crescenzo

  • Affiliations:
  • Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • CISC'05 Proceedings of the First SKLOIS conference on Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a short survey of known notions of zero- knowledge proof systems in the interactive model and main results about these notions. We then introduce a new notion,an extension of proofs of knowledge,which we call Proofs of Non-Zero Knowledge, as they allow a prover to convince a verifier that he knows a secret satisfying some relation, without revealing any new information about the secret or even the relation that the secret satifies with the common input. We prove a number of basic results about proofs of non-zero knowledge, and, in the process, revisit previously studied protocols, described as ‘proofs of partial knowledge’, which are particular cases of proofs of non-zero knowledge.