Paper 2024/996

Great-LaKeys: An Improved Threshold-PRF and a Novel Exponent-VRF from LWR

Matthias Geihs, Consensys
Abstract

Building on the recently proposed LWR-based threshold-PRF LaKey (USENIX'24), we propose two new constructions. First, we propose an optimized variant of the LaKey threshold-PRF with significantly reduced round and communication complexity. We achieve this by improving the underlying bit truncation protocol, which may be of independent interest, and by providing tighter parameter bounds. Second, we show that the underlying LWR-based PRF can be proven efficiently in zero-knowledge, and thereby yields a novel and practically efficient exponent-VRF. We provide prototype implementations of both of our constructions and evaluate their concrete performance.

Note: fix evrf proof system

Metadata
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PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Latincrypt 2025
Keywords
Threshold PRFExponent VRFLWRMPCZK
Contact author(s)
matthias geihs @ consensys net
History
2025-08-10: last of 4 revisions
2024-06-20: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2024/996
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/996,
      author = {Matthias Geihs},
      title = {Great-{LaKeys}: An Improved Threshold-{PRF} and a Novel Exponent-{VRF} from {LWR}},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/996},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/996}
}
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