A more efficient computationally sound non-interactive zero-knowledge shuffle argument

  • Authors:
  • Helger Lipmaa;Bingsheng Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tartu, Estonia;State University of New York at Buffalo

  • Venue:
  • SCN'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a new non-interactive (perfect) zero-knowledge (NIZK) shuffle argument that, when compared the only previously known efficient NIZK shuffle argument by Groth and Lu, has a small constant factor times smaller computation and communication, and is based on more standard computational assumptions. Differently from Groth and Lu who only prove the co-soundness of their argument under purely computational assumptions, we prove computational soundness under a necessary knowledge assumption. We also present a general transformation that results in a shuffle argument that has a quadratically smaller common reference string (CRS) and a small constant factor times times longer argument than the original shuffle.