Paper 2022/1683

Powers of Tau in Asynchrony

Sourav Das, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Zhuolun Xiang, Aptos
Ling Ren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Abstract

The $q$-Strong Diffie-Hellman ($q$-SDH) parameters are foundational to efficient constructions of many cryptographic primitives such as zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge, polynomial/vector commitments, verifiable secret sharing, and randomness beacon. The only existing method to generate these parameters securely is highly sequential, requires strong network synchrony assumptions, and has very high communication and computation cost. For example, to generate parameters for any given $q$, each party incurs a communication cost of $\Omega(nq)$ and requires $\Omega(n)$ rounds. Here $n$ is the number of parties in the secure multiparty computation protocol. Since $q$ is typically large, i.e., on the order of billions, the cost is highly prohibitive. In this paper, we present Tauron, a distributed protocol to generate $q$-SDH parameters in an asynchronous network. In a network of $n$ parties, Tauron tolerates up to one-third of malicious parties. Each party incurs a communication cost of $O(q + n^2\log q)$ and the protocol finishes in $O(\log q + \log n)$ expected rounds. We provide a rigorous security analysis of our protocol. We implement Tauron and evaluate it with up to 128 geographically distributed parties. Our evaluation illustrates that Tauron is highly scalable and results in a 2-6$\times$ better runtime and 4-13$\times$ better per-party bandwidth usage.

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Cryptographic protocols
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Preprint.
Keywords
Powers of Tau Asynchrony q-Strong Diffie-Hellman
Contact author(s)
souravd2 @ illinois edu
xiangzhuolun @ gmail com
renling @ illinois edu
History
2022-12-05: approved
2022-12-03: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2022/1683
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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1683,
      author = {Sourav Das and Zhuolun Xiang and Ling Ren},
      title = {Powers of Tau in Asynchrony},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/1683},
      year = {2022},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1683}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1683}
}
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