A perfect zero-knowledge proof for a problem equivalent to discrete logarithm

  • Authors:
  • O. Goldreich;E. Kushilevitz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '88 Proceedings on Advances in cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

An interactive proof is called perfect zero-knowledge if the probability distribution generated by any probabilistic polynomial-time verifier interacting with the prover on input a theorem 驴, can be generated by another probabilistic polynomial time machine which only gets 驴 as input (and interacts with nobody!).In this paper we present a perfect zero-knowledge proof system for a decision problem which is computationally equivalent to the Discrete Logarithm Problem. Doing so we provide additional evidence to the belief that perfect zero-knowledge proofs exist in a non-trivial manner (i.e. for languages not in BPP). Our results extend to the logarithm problem in any finite Abelian group.