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Greyhound: Fast Polynomial Commitments from Lattices

Authors:
Ngoc Khanh Nguyen , King's College London
Gregor Seiler , IBM Research Europe - Zurich
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Conference: CRYPTO 2024
Abstract: In this paper, we propose Greyhound, the first concretely efficient polynomial commitment scheme from standard lattice assumptions. At the core of our construction lies a simple three-round protocol for proving evaluations for polynomials of bounded degree N with verifier time complexity O(\sqrt{N}). By composing it with the LaBRADOR proof system (CRYPTO 2023), we obtain a succinct proof of polynomial evaluation (i.e. polylogarithmic in N) that admits a sublinear verifier runtime. To highlight practicality of Greyhound, we provide implementation details including concrete sizes and runtimes. Notably, for large polynomials of degree at most N=2^{30}, the scheme produces evaluation proofs of size 53KB, which is more than 10^4 times smaller than the recent lattice-based framework, called SLAP (EUROCRYPT 2024), and around three orders of magnitude smaller than Ligero (CCS 2017) and Brakedown (CRYPTO 2023).
BibTeX
@inproceedings{crypto-2024-34387,
  title={Greyhound: Fast Polynomial Commitments from Lattices},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Ngoc Khanh Nguyen and Gregor Seiler},
  year=2024
}