Paper 2024/075

Succinct Verification of Compressed Sigma Protocols in the Updatable SRS setting

Moumita Dutta, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Chaya Ganesh, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Neha Jawalkar, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Abstract

We propose protocols in the Compressed Sigma Protocol framework that achieve a succinct verifier. Towards this, we construct a new inner product argument and cast it in the Compressed Sigma Protocol (CSP) framework as a protocol for opening a committed linear form, achieving logarithmic verification. We then use our succinct-verifier CSP to construct a zero-knowledge argument for circuit satisfiability (under the discrete logarithm assumption in bilinear groups) in the updatable Structured Reference String (SRS) setting that achieves $O(\log n)$ proof size and $O(\log n)$ verification complexity. Our circuit zero-knowledge protocol has concretely better proof/prover/verifier complexity compared to the the state-of-the-art protocol in the updatable setting under the same assumption. Our techniques of achieving verifier-succinctness in the compression framework is of independent interest. We then show a commitment scheme for committing to group elements using a structured commitment key. We construct protocols to open a committed homomorphism on a committed vector with verifier succinctness in the designated verifier setting. This has applications in making the verifier in compressed sigma protocols for bilinear group arithmetic circuits, succinct.

Note: The full version of the PKC 2024 paper. Fixed proofs of Lemma 7 and Lemma 8.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in PKC 2024
Keywords
Zero-KnowledgeSigma-protocolsSuccinct proofs
Contact author(s)
moumitadutta @ iisc ac in
chaya @ iisc ac in
jawalkarp @ iisc ac in
History
2024-02-08: revised
2024-01-17: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2024/075
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/075,
      author = {Moumita Dutta and Chaya Ganesh and Neha Jawalkar},
      title = {Succinct Verification of Compressed Sigma Protocols in the Updatable SRS setting},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2024/075},
      year = {2024},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/075}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/075}
}
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