Paper 2006/400

Concurrent Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments for NP from One Way Functions

Vipul Goyal, Ryan Moriarty, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Amit Sahai

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 \emph{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 \textbf{NP} from any one way function.

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Foundations
Publication info
Published elsewhere. ASIACRYPT 2007
Keywords
zero knowledge
Contact author(s)
vipul @ cs ucla edu
History
2007-09-08: revised
2006-11-12: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2006/400
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/400,
      author = {Vipul Goyal and Ryan Moriarty and Rafail Ostrovsky and Amit Sahai},
      title = {Concurrent Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments for {NP} from One Way Functions},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/400},
      year = {2006},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/400}
}
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