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Non-interactive zero-knowledge arguments for qma, with preprocessing

Coladangelo, Andrea
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Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo
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Zhang, Tina
Micciancio, Daniele
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Ristenpart, Thomas
2020
Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2020 - 40th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Proceedings, Part III
40th Annual International Cryptology Conference

A non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZK) proof system for a language (Formula Presented) allows a prover (who is provided with an instance (Formula Presented), and a witness w for x) to compute a classical certificate π for the claim that (Formula Presented) such that π has the following properties: 1) π can be verified efficiently, and 2) π does not reveal any information about w, besides the fact that it exists (i.e. that (Formula Presented)). NIZK proof systems have recently been shown to exist for all languages in NP in the common reference string (CRS) model and under the learning with errors (LWE) assumption. We initiate the study of NIZK arguments for languages in QMA. An argument system differs from a proof system in that the honest prover must be efficient, and that it is only sound against (quantum) polynomial-time provers. Our first main result is the following: if LWE is hard for quantum computers, then any language in QMA has an NIZK argument with preprocessing. The preprocessing in our argument system consists of (i) the generation of a CRS and (ii) a single (instance-independent) quantum message from verifier to prover. The instance-dependent phase of our argument system, meanwhile, involves only a single classical message from prover to verifier. Importantly, verification in our protocol is entirely classical, and the verifier needs not have quantum memory; its only quantum actions are in the preprocessing phase. NIZK proofs of (classical) knowledge are widely used in the construction of more advanced cryptographic protocols, and we expect the quantum analogue to likewise find a broad range of applications. In this respect, the fact that our protocol has an entirely classical verification phase is particularly appealing. Our second contribution is to extend the notion of a classical proof of knowledge to the quantum setting. We introduce the notions of arguments and proofs of quantum knowledge (AoQK/PoQK), and we show that our non-interactive argument system satisfies the definition of an AoQK, which extends its domain of usefulness with respect to cryptographic applications. In particular, we explicitly construct an extractor which can recover a quantum witness from any prover who is successful in our protocol. We also show that any language in QMA has an (interactive) proof of quantum knowledge, again by exhibiting a particular proof system for all languages in QMA and constructing an extractor for it.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-56877-1_28
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85089724882

Author(s)
Coladangelo, Andrea

California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science

Vidick, Thomas  orcid-logo

California Institute of Technology

Zhang, Tina

California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science

Editors
Micciancio, Daniele
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Ristenpart, Thomas
Date Issued

2020

Publisher

Springer Nature (Switzerland)

Publisher place

Cham

Published in
Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2020 - 40th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Proceedings, Part III
ISBN of the book

9783030568764

9783030568771

Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); LNCS 12172

ISSN (of the series)

1611-3349

0302-9743

Start page

799

End page

828

Subjects

Argument systems

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Non-interactive proof

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QMA

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Zero-knowledge

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
40th Annual International Cryptology Conference

Santa Barbara, United States

2020-08-17 - 2020-08-21

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November 21, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/256177
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