[Resource Topic] 2019/1076: Fractal: Post-Quantum and Transparent Recursive Proofs from Holography

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Title:
Fractal: Post-Quantum and Transparent Recursive Proofs from Holography

Authors: Alessandro Chiesa, Dev Ojha, Nicholas Spooner

Abstract:

We present a new methodology to efficiently realize recursive composition of succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (SNARKs). Prior to this work, the only known methodology relied on pairing-based SNARKs instantiated on cycles of pairing-friendly elliptic curves, an expensive algebraic object. Our methodology does not rely on any special algebraic objects and, moreover, achieves new desirable properties: it is post-quantum and it is transparent (the setup is public coin). We exploit the fact that recursive composition is simpler for SNARKs with preprocessing, and the core of our work is obtaining a preprocessing zkSNARK for rank-1 constraint satisfiability (R1CS) that is post-quantum and transparent. We obtain this latter by establishing a connection between holography and preprocessing in the random oracle model, and then constructing a holographic proof for R1CS. We experimentally validate our methodology, demonstrating feasibility in practice.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1076

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRhC5U353I

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