IEICE Trans - Strong Identification Based on a Hard-on-Average Problem

Strong Identification Based on a Hard-on-Average Problem

Pino CABALLERO-GIL

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E88-A No.5 pp.1117-1121
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.5.1117
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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Keyword:
cryptography, computational complexity, algorithms, discrete mathematics,

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Summary:
The aim of this work is to investigate the possibility of designing zero-knowledge identification schemes based on hard-on-average problems. It includes a new two-party identification protocol whose security relies on a discrete mathematics problem classified as DistNP-Complete under the average-case analysis, the so-called Distributional Matrix Representability Problem. Thanks to the use of the search version of the mentioned problem, the zero-knowledge property is formally proved by black-box simulation, and consequently the security of the proposed scheme is actually guaranteed. Furthermore, with the proposal of a new zero-knowledge proof based on a problem never used before for this purpose, the set of tools for designing cryptographic applications is enlarged.

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