## CryptoDB

### Paper: Triply Adaptive UC NIZK

Authors: Ran Canetti , Boston University Xiao Wang , Northwestern University Pratik Sarkar , Boston University Search ePrint Search Google Slides ASIACRYPT 2022 Non-interactive zero knowledge (NIZK) enables a prover, to prove that a statement in an NP language is valid, given an accepting witness, without leaking any information about the witness. We study universally composable (UC) NIZKs which are secure against adaptive corruption of parties and provides adaptive soundness, i.e. the statement is adaptively chosen by a malicious prover based on the setup string distribution. The only known adaptively secure NIZK protocols either fail to achieve full adaptive soundness or rely on non-falsifiable knowledge assumptions. We construct the first NIZK protocols which are triply adaptive - secure against adaptive corruptions, guarantees adaptive soundness and satisfies adaptive zero knowledge, from falsifiable assumptions. We do so using the following methodology: - We define a new ideal functionality, denoted as F_NICOM, for non-interactive commitment schemes in the UC framework. - We define and construct Sigma protocols which satisfy triply adaptive security in the F_NICOM model. - By relying on correlation intractable (CI) hash functions, we compile a triply adaptively secure Sigma protocol (in F_NICOM model) into a triply adaptive UC-NIZK argument in the F_NICOM+common reference string (crs) model. In addition to CI hash functions, our compiler requires standard cryptographic primitives - non-interactive equivocal commitments and public key encryption with obliviously samplable ciphertexts, for implementing F_NICOM in the crs model. We instantiate our framework by demonstrating that most statically secure Sigma protocols can be proven to be triply adaptively secure in the F_NICOM model, hence, bridging the gap between static and adaptive security for NIZKs. Our NIZK arguments can be concretely based on assumptions, like LWE, or LPN and DDH.
##### BibTeX
@inproceedings{asiacrypt-2022-32664,