Privacy-Free Garbled Circuits with Applications to Efficient Zero-Knowledge
- Tore Kasper Frederiksen,
- Jesper Buus Nielsen,
- Claudio Orlandi
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Abstract
In the last few years garbled circuits (GC) have been elevated from being merely a component in Yao’s protocol for secure two-party computation, to a cryptographic primitive in its own right, following the growing number of applications that use GCs. Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocols is one of these examples: In a recent paper Jawurek et al. [JKO13] showed that GCs can be used to construct efficient ZK proofs for unstructured languages. In this work we show that due to the property of this particular scenario (i.e., one of the parties knows all the secret input bits, and therefore all intermediate values in the computation), we can construct more efficient garbling schemes specifically tailored to this goal. As a highlight of our result, in one of our constructions only one ciphertext per gate needs to be communicated and XOR gates never require any cryptographic operations. In addition to making a step forward towards more practical ZK, we believe that our contribution is also interesting from a conceptual point of view: in the terminology of Bellare et al. [BHR12] our garbling schemes achieve authenticity, but no privacy nor obliviousness, therefore representing the first natural separation between those notions.
- Title
- Privacy-Free Garbled Circuits with Applications to Efficient Zero-Knowledge
- Book Title
- Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2015
- Book Subtitle
- 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 26-30, 2015, Proceedings, Part II
- Book Part
- 4
- Pages
- pp 191-219
- Copyright
- 2015
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-46803-6_7
- Print ISBN
- 978-3-662-46802-9
- Online ISBN
- 978-3-662-46803-6
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Series Volume
- 9057
- Series ISSN
- 0302-9743
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- International Association for Cryptologic Research
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- Editors
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Elisabeth Oswald
(13)
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Marc Fischlin
(14)
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Elisabeth Oswald
- Editor Affiliations
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- 13. University of Bristol
- 14. Kryptoplexität, TU Darmstadt
- Authors
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Tore Kasper Frederiksen
(15)
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Jesper Buus Nielsen
(15)
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Claudio Orlandi
(15)
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Tore Kasper Frederiksen
- Author Affiliations
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- 15. Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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