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Title:
Structure-Preserving Compressing Primitives: Vector Commitments, Accumulators and Applications
Authors: Stephan Krenn, Omid Mir, Daniel Slamanig
Abstract:Compressing primitives such as accumulators and vector commitments, allow to rep- resent large data sets with some compact, ideally constant-sized value. Moreover, they support operations like proving membership or non-membership with minimal, ideally also constant- sized, storage and communication overhead. In recent years, these primitives have found nu- merous practical applications, with many constructions based on various hardness assumptions. So far, however, it has been elusive to construct these primitives in a strictly structure-preserving setting, i.e., in a bilinear group in a way that messages, commitments and openings are all ele- ments of the two source groups. Interestingly, backed by existing impossibility results, not even conventional commitments with such constraints are known in this setting.
In this paper we investigate whether strictly structure-preserving compressing primitives can be realized. We close this gap by presenting the first strictly structure-preserving commitment that is shrinking (and in particular constant-size). We circumvent existing impossibility results by employing a more structured message space, i.e., a variant of the Diffie-Hellman message space. Our main results are constructions of structure-preserving vector commitments (SPVC) as well as accumulators. We first discuss generic constructions and then present concrete con- structions under the Diffie-Hellman Exponent assumption. To demonstrate the usefulness of our constructions, we present various applications. Most notable, we present the first entirely prac- tical constant-size ring signature scheme in bilinear groups (i.e., the discrete logarithm setting). Concretely, using the popular BLS12-381 pairing-friendly curve, our ring signatures achieve a size of roughly 6500 bits.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1619
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