Constant-Round Concurrent Zero Knowledge From Falsifiable Assumptions

Huijia Rachel Lin, MIT
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 
32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Speaker: 
Huijia Rachel Lin, MIT

We present a constant-round concurrent zero-knowledge protocol for NP. Our protocol is sound against uniform polynomial-time attackers, and relies on the existence of families of collision-resistant hash functions, and a new (but in our eyes, natural) falsifiable intractability assumption: Roughly speaking, that Micali's non-interactive CS-proofs are sound for languages in P.