Instance-Hiding Interactive Proofs
摘要
In an Instance-Hiding Interactive Proof (IHIP) [BFS90], an efficient verifier with a private input x interacts with an unbounded prover to determine whether x is contained in a language \(\mathcal {L}\) . In addition to completeness and soundness, the instance-hiding property requires that the prover should not learn anything about x in the course of the interaction. Such proof systems capture natural privacy properties, and may be seen as a generalization of the influential concept of Randomized Encodings [IK00, AIK04, AIKPC15], and as a counterpart to Zero-Knowledge proofs [GMR89]. We investigate the properties and power of such instance-hiding proofs, and show the following: