Groth–Sahai Proofs Revisited

Essam Ghadafi, Nigel Smart, Bogdan Warinschi

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Abstract

Since their introduction in 2008, the non-interactive zeroknowledge (NIZK) and non-interactive witness indistinguishable (NIWI) proofs designed by Groth and Sahai have been used in numerous applications. In this paper, we offer two contributions to the study of these proof systems. First, we identify and correct some errors, present in the oringal online manuscript, that occur in two of the three instantiations of the Groth-Sahai NIWI proofs for which the equation checked by the verifier is not valid for honest executions of the protocol. In particular, implementations of these proofs would not work correctly. We explain why, perhaps surprisingly, the NIZK proofs that are built from these NIWI proofs do not suffer from a similar problem. Secondly, we study the efficiency of existing instantiations and note that only one of the three instantiations has the potential of being practical. We therefore propose a natural extension of an existing assumption from symmetric pairings to asymmetric ones which in turn enables Groth-Sahai proofs based on new classes of efficient pairings.
Translated title of the contributionGroth–Sahai Proofs Revisited
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPublic Key Cryptography - PKC 2010
PublisherSpringer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages177-192
Volume6056
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Bibliographical note

Other page information: 177-192
Conference Proceedings/Title of Journal: Public Key Cryptography - PKC 2010
Other identifier: 2001177

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