Paper 2021/219
Snarky Ceremonies
Markulf Kohlweiss, Mary Maller, Janno Siim, and Mikhail Volkhov
Abstract
Succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs) have found numerous applications in the blockchain setting and elsewhere. The most efficient SNARKs require a distributed ceremony protocol to generate public parameters, also known as a structured reference string (SRS). Our contributions are two-fold: 1. We give a security framework for non-interactive zero-knowledge arguments with a ceremony protocol. 2. We revisit the ceremony protocol of Groth's SNARK [Bowe et al., 2017]. We show that the original construction can be simplified and optimized, and then prove its security in our new framework. Importantly, our construction avoids the random beacon model used in the original work.
Note: Revised proof and improved readability
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- A minor revision of an IACR publication in ASIACRYPT 2021
- Keywords
- Zero KnowledgeNIZKzk-SNARKceremony
- Contact author(s)
- mikhail volkhov @ ed ac uk
- History
- 2021-09-21: revised
- 2021-03-02: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/219
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/219,
author = {Markulf Kohlweiss and Mary Maller and Janno Siim and Mikhail Volkhov},
title = {Snarky Ceremonies},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/219},
year = {2021},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/219}
}
