IACR News item: 06 July 2012
Omkant Pandey
ePrint ReportThe recent work of Garg, Jain, and Sahai formulates a meaningful notion of zero-knowledge in presence of leakage; and provides a construction which satisfies a weaker variant of this notion called (1+e)-leakage-resilient-zero-knowledge, for every constant e>0. In this weaker variant, roughly speaking, if the verifier learns L bits of leakage during the interaction, then the simulator is allowed to access (1+e).L bits of leakage. The round complexity of their protocol is n/e.
In this work, we present the first construction of leakage-resilient zero-knowledge satisfying the ideal requirement of e=0. While our focus is on a feasibility result for e=0, our construction also enjoys a constant number of rounds. At the heart of our construction is a new ``public-coin preamble\'\' which allows the simulator to recover arbitrary information from a (cheating) verifier in a ``straight line.\'\' We use non-black-box simulation techniques to accomplish this goal.
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