A Brif Survey of Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Abstract

In cryptography, the notion of zero-knowledge is important. It is also related to complexity theory. In this paper we briefly survey the zero-knowledge proofs in the literature. 1987 Maathematics Subject Classification: 69D56, 69E30, 69F21, Keywords and phrases: interactive proofs, zero-kniwledge, cryptography, complexity theiry.