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+# Log-sized Proof of 1-of-N knowledge of DL
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+Ian Goldberg (iang@uwaterloo.ca), 2020-04-20
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+This code implements the protocol of Section 3 of Groth and Kohlweiss,
+["One-out-of-Many Proofs: Or How to Leak a Secret and Spend a Coin"](https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/764.pdf),
+Eurocrypt 2015.
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+You can look at this protocol in a number of ways:
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+  * knowledge of an opening of one of N Pedersen commitments to 0
+  * knowledge of one of N discrete logs of group elements
+  * knowledge of one of N private keys
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+The technique of Section 4 of the above paper uses this same protocol
+to produce a log-sized ring signature: just compute the challenge
+x non-interactively as a hash of the group parameters, a message,
+the ring of public keys, and the output of the prover's first message.
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+The size of the proof is 4n group elements, plus 3n+1 scalars, where
+n = ceil(log\_2(N)), and N is the number of commitments/group
+elements/public keys.