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Chapter 12 Proof systems and zero knowledge

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In an interactive proof system, a prover called Paula knows some fact and tries to convince a verifier Victor of its truth. This might be some property of a secret key, say, that its least bit is 0.

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von zur Gathen, J. (2015). Chapter 12 Proof systems and zero knowledge. In: CryptoSchool. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48425-8_19

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