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IACR News item: 08 March 2023

Pierre-Alain Fouque, Adela Georgescu, Chen Qian, Adeline Roux-Langlois, Weiqiang Wen
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We present a new generic transform that takes a multi-round interactive proof for the membership of a language $\mathcal{L}$ and outputs a non-interactive zero-knowledge proof (not of knowledge) in the common reference string model. Similar to the Fiat-Shamir transform, it requires a hash function $\mathsf{H}$. However, in our transform the zero-knowledge property is in the standard model, and the adaptive soundness is in the non-programmable random oracle model ($\mathsf{NPROM}$). Behind this new generic transform, we build a new generic OR-composition of two multi-round interactive proofs. Note that the two common techniques for building OR-proofs (parallel OR-proof and sequential OR-proof) cannot be naturally extended to the multi-round setting. We also give a proof of security for our OR-proof in the quantum oracle model ($\mathsf{QROM}$), surprisingly the security loss in $\\mathsf{QROM}$ is independent from the number of rounds.
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