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Zero-Knowledge Proof

A zero-knowledge proof is a cryptographic protocol in which a prover can convince a verifier that a statement is true without revealing any additional information beyond the truth of the statement. Introduced by Goldwasser, Micali, and Rackoff in 1985, zero-knowledge proofs have profound applications in authentication, privacy-preserving verification, and blockchain systems.

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Sources

  1. Goldwasser, S., Micali, S., & Rackoff, C. (1985). The knowledge complexity of interactive proof systems. SIAM Journal on Computing, 18(1), 186–208. DOI: 10.1137/0218012
  2. Ben-Or, M., Goldwasser, S., Kilian, J., & Wigderson, A. (1988). Multi-prover interactive proofs: How to remove intractability assumptions. Proceedings of the 20th ACM STOC, 113–131. DOI: 10.1145/62212.62223
  3. Groth, J. (2016). On the size of pairing-based non-interactive arguments. Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2016, 305–326. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_11

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