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Additive Combinatorics and Discrete Logarithm Based Range Protocols

Chaabouni, Rafik  
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Lipmaa, Helger
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Shelat, Abhi
2010
Information Security and Privacy Information Security and Privacy, Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2010
15th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2010

We show how to express an arbitrary integer interval $I = [0, H]$ as a sumset $I = \sum_{i=1}^\ell G_i * [0, u - 1] + [0, H']$ of smaller integer intervals for some small values $\ell$, $u$, and $H' < u - 1$, where $b * A = {b a : a \in A}$ and $A + B = {a + b : a \in A \wedge b \in B}$. We show how to derive such expression of $I$ as a sumset for any value of $1 < u < H$, and in particular, how the coefficients $G_i$ can be found by using a nontrivial but efficient algorithm. This result may be interesting by itself in the context of additive combinatorics. Given the sumset-representation of $I$, we show how to decrease both the communication complexity and the computational complexity of the recent pairing-based range proof of Camenisch, Chaabouni and shelat from ASIACRYPT 2008 by a factor of $2$. Our results are important in applications like e-voting where a voting server has to verify thousands of proofs of e-vote correctness per hour. Therefore, our new result in additive combinatorics has direct relevance in practice.

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