Title :
A constant-round perfect parallel coin-tossing protocol
Author :
Zhang, Xiaolan ; Sun, Hongxiang ; Zhang, Hua ; Wen, Qiaoyan ; Xu, Haixia
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Sci., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A coin-tossing protocol lets two parties decide on a string that should be a random (or at least pseudorandom) string. In this paper, we focus on taking advantage of the perfectly hiding commitment scheme, constant-round perfect zero-knowledge arguments and arguments of knowledge to construct a two-party constant-round perfect protocol for secure coin-tossing, where both of two parties can obtain the common resulting coins and the resulting coins are guaranteed to be statistically close to uniform. The security of our protocol is obtained against malicious non-uniform adversaries that may arbitrarily deviate from the protocol specification. Comparing with the Barak´s protocol, we utilize the black-box reduction in the process of security proof and the rounds of our protocol decrease obviously.
Keywords :
computer network security; protocols; random sequences; Barak protocol; black box reduction; coin tossing security; constant round perfect parallel coin tossing protocol; constant round perfect zero knowledge argument; hiding commitment scheme; malicious nonuniform adversary; protocol security; protocol specification; random string; security proof; Artificial neural networks; Cryptography; Organizations; Protocols; coin-tossing protocol; commitment scheme; malicious adversaries; zero-knowledge argument;
Conference_Titel :
Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6788-4
DOI :
10.1109/PIC.2010.5687591