Hiding Instances in Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems (Extended Abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Donald Beaver;Joan Feigenbaum;Victor Shoup

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '90 Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

Informally speaking, an instance-hiding proof system for the function f is a protocol in which a polynomial-time verifier is convinced of the value of f(x) but does not reveal the input x to the provers. We show here that a boolean function f has an instance-hiding proof system if and only if it is the characteristic function of a language in NEXP 驴 coNEXP. We formalize the notion of zero-knowledge for instance-hiding proof systems with several provers and show that all such systems can be made perfect zero-knowledge.