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Proof of Knowledge & Rewinding Lemma

I'm somewhat confused about how the definition of a proof of knowledge relates to the Theorem 19.1 in Boneh-Shoup (http://toc.cryptobook.us/book.pdf), particularly in relation to Schnorr's protocol ...
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Why does the challenge need to be prime in Wesolowski's succinct argument of $y=x^{e}$?

In Wesolowski's VDF (verifiable delay function) a prover produces a pair $(x, y)$ and needs to argue to the verifier that the pair satisfies $y = x^e \pmod N$ for some $e$ computable to both. The ...
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Definition of soundness for interactive proof systems

I am reading the Wikipedia page for Interactive proof systems and am having trouble understand the notation in the definition of soundness, many of which is left unspecified. Given a formal language ...
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How to calculate soundness error of a sigma protocol?

How do I calculate the soundness error of a sigma protocol, such as Schnorr's interactive protocol for knowledge of a discrete logarithm?
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Interactive Proofs: Why $\delta \lt \frac 13$ for Soundness & Completeness?

From a text on Interactive Proofs $x \in {0,1}^n$ is input $V$ is verifier $P$ is prover $r$ is $V$'s internal randomness $P$ provides a value $y$ which is claimed to be equal to $f(x)$ (Completeness)...
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The significance of rewinding a simulation in an ZK interactive proof

I'm reading Matthew Green's blog post on ZK Interactive Proofs I don't understand the part where he explains how using a time machine shows that the prover is leaking zero information Specifically, ...
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Knowledge extractors in proofs of knowledge

I'm somewhat new to cryptography and I've been looking at knowledge extractors in proofs of knowledge and I am a little confused by the use of somewhat different definitions. In textbooks or early ...
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Accumulation Updater for Cryptography

I want update in place for sorted element list and proof for accumulator encoding of only element updated. I try to find technique similar to this, but only GCTI pop up and similar methods. It must ...
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Interactive proof of possession of a signed message

Suppose Alice has a verifiable (message, signature) pair from Cedric, who would not cooperate and routinely uses an algo (ecdsa, eddsa, rsa, or insert yours here) to sign messages. Alice wants to ...
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Can we achieve statistical Completeness, Soundness and Zero Knowledge in an Interactive Proof?

The question is mainly stated in the title, sorry for it being a bit small of a question. I was reading about ZK proofs and I was wondering what do we know about their limits only their properties. Do ...
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Amplifying the completeness and soundness of a proof scheme

A (interactive) proof system for a language $\mathcal{L}$ is defined by two algorithms $\mathcal{P}$, a prover, and $\mathcal{V}$, an efficient verifier, with the following requirements: Completeness:...
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Why I always obtain this soundness bound in parallel repetition of interactive proof systems

Fix an interactive proof system $(P,V)$ and denote by $(P_k,V_k)$ an interactive proof system in which the parties play in parallel $k$ copies of $(P,V)$ and for which $V_k$ accepts if and only if $V$ ...
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Compiling a ZK-SNARK into a Signature of Knowledge by way of FS/BCS transformations

In a sigma protocol, a well known transformation to a signature is Fiat-Shamir, where message derived randomness is mixed into the randomness of the challenge. A natural example is Schnorr signatures. ...
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Sumcheck Protocol: How to represent a matrix as an MLE which takes row & column numbers as parameters?

This is from Justin Thaler's book - Proofs, Arguments & Zero Knowledge Page 43 For it to make sense to talk about multilinear extensions, we need to view the adjacency matrix $A$ not as a matrix, ...
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Is this Zero Knowledge interactive proof for Quadratic non-residuosity proper?

This is from Alan Rosen's video on Interactive proofs - https://youtu.be/6uGimDYZPMw?t=1754 Here the proof is that the Verifier gets a random bit $b$ . If $b = 0$, then Verifier gets a random $y \...
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