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On Simulation-Sound Trapdoor Commitments

Authors:
Philip MacKenzie
Ke Yang
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/252
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Abstract: We study the recently introduced notion of a simulation-sound trapdoor commitment (SSTC) scheme. In this paper, we present a new, simpler definition for an SSTC scheme that admits more efficient constructions and can be used in a larger set of applications. Specifically, we show how to construct SSTC schemes from any one-way functions, and how to construct very efficient SSTC schemes based on specific number-theoretic assumptions. We also show how to construct simulation-sound, non-malleable, and universally-composable zero-knowledge protocols using SSTC schemes, yielding, for instance, the most efficient universally-composable zero-knowledge protocols known. Finally, we explore the relation between SSTC schemes and non-malleable commitment schemes by presenting a sequence of implication and separation results, which in particular imply that SSTC schemes are non-malleable.
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@misc{eprint-2003-11965,
  title={On Simulation-Sound Trapdoor Commitments},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / trapdoor commitments, non-malleability},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/252},
  note={ philmac@lucent.com 12388 received 2 Dec 2003},
  author={Philip MacKenzie and Ke Yang},
  year=2003
}