ZKP

ZKP is a practical zero knowledge proof system that provides small and computationally efficient zero-knowledge proofs of arbitrary computations. This system allows us to construct succinct non-interactive proofs with cheap and fast verification times. The topology of the proof generation system is described by the following diagram.

Compiler Stages

Program Construction
Trusted Setup
Proof Generation
Proof Verification

Program Construction

Program construction is developed by other libraries which emit a standard JSON protocol describing the functional composition of gates computing arithmetic operations of addition and multiplication and with wires. This library can simply use any other compiler or library which emits JSON as its interchange format.

A reference library for circuit construction language is provided by arithmetic-circuits package.

Trusted Setup

The trusted setup can be run from the command line. Which will generate the one time parameters needed to setup for a specific circuit. The setup parameters can either be subsequently destroyed or distributed in a Shamir secret sharing configuration. The Shamir sharing allows a n-of-m setup where a minimum of n participants must combine their secret parts to reconstruct the trusted setup.

zkp setup --prover Groth16 --input samples/example1.json -o setupdir

This will generate the trusted setup parameters in the setupdir directory. These five random parameters (α,β,𝛾,δ,x) from the prime field Fr of the BN254 elliptic curve.

RandomSetup
  { setupAlpha =
      P 12256559805687004284032990640481138455228350420895296477627313054450750333538
  , setupBeta =
      P 4401553107086663101145669242467980542018664489189708849056812824771109996937
  , setupGamma =
      P 11751086019938025633396747311851452921508835627313304853903993116945166687533
  , setupDelta =
      P 168604024821165987426171350616143663866971217710026689954359697680025921731
  , setupX =
      P 17090290750981977232640417368259094286138615605287635462955897488010126230557
  }

If you wish to use hardware entropy from the kernel to perform the random generation pass the --hardware flag during trusted setup.

Proof Generation

For a given set of valid inputs (--inputs), this will generate the proof term pi to a proof file. This contains the succinct zero knowledge proof given the evaluation of the circuit with the given trusted setup and program inputs.

zkp prove --input samples/example1.json -d setupdir --inputs samples/inputs1.json --pi proof

This will generate a π proof term which consists of three terms in the from the bilinear map A : G₂, B : G₁ and C : G₁.

Proof
  { proofA =
      A (P 4881623700312852323508547682818174690864977127565225101692969747455865314076)
        (P 21226270279582811012422188678741405568697460494611910557066940647978844558004)
  , proofB =
      A (E (P 20323099801991325872207033941577805160427313780137510282152872074461606067272 *
              X +
              P 1422252355533785307633747654423585463232482725315893764382065912760224949248))
        (E (P 3567658277931205602889970963406800124094834788390622140804820116722346374274 *
              X +
              P 15030027696371368845331628915595104373945089162840261486371773861661834388966))
  , proofC =
      A (P 21113978983642622273905001525315900726975017023639887701995527379031005434733)
        (P 1703880359115562486637532379447225273456712398817044635461020607254025768226)
  }

Proof Verification

The verification algorithm takes as input a restricted common reference string and a proof term (--pi), computes the final pairing operation to verify the integrity of the proof and returns a rejection or an acceptance as exit code.

zkp verify -d setupdir --inputs samples/inputs1.json --pi proof

Curves

This proof system uses a polymorphic representation of the elliptic curve operations allowing us to instantiate the prover over several elliptic curves including:

BN254
BLS12-381

Building from Source

This library compiles on 8.x of the Haskell compiler. To install GHC use ghcup.

ghcup install 8.6.5

After GHC is setup, download this library and build it using cabal.

git clone git@github.com:adjoint-io/zkp.git
cd zkp
cabal new-install --installdir=.
cp ./zkp ~/.local/bin

Alternatively this library can be built with stack using:

cd zkp
stack install

Docker Images

The zkp executable can be built and run inside of a Docker image:

$ docker build -t zkp .
$ docker run -ti zkp /bin/bash

Verification

This is a optional step and for developers only.

ZKP is enriched with a set of specifications through refinement types which are checkable the LiquidHaskell framework. LiquidHaskell analyses the modules and discharges proof obligations to an SMT solver to see if the conditions are satisfiable. This allows us to prove the absence of a family of errors around memory safety, arithmetic exceptions and information flow.

You will need either the Microsoft Research Z3 SMT solver or Stanford CVC4 SMT solver.

For Linux:

sudo apt install z3 # z3
sudo apt install cvc4 # cvc4

For Mac:

brew tap z3 # z3
brew tap cvc4/cvc4 # cvc4
brew install cvc4/cvc4/cvc4

Then install LiquidHaskell either with Cabal or Stack:

cabal install liquidhaskell
stack install liquidhaskell

The verification can then be run over the cryptographic modules in this project.

liquid -f --cabaldir -i src -i spec src/Poly.hs
liquid -f --cabaldir -i src -i spec src/Protocol/Groth.hs

Dependencies

This proof system depends on the following dependencies.

arithmetic-circuits - Arithmetic circuits for zero knowledge proof systems
pairing - Optimised bilinear pairings over elliptic curves
galois-field - Finite field arithmetic
galois-fft - Finite field polynomial arithmetic based on fast Fourier transforms
elliptic-curve - Elliptic curve operations
arithmoi - Number theory operations
semirings - Algebraic semirings
poly - Efficient polynomial arithmetic
entropy - Generation of hardware entropy for secure trusted setup
shamir - Shamir secret sharing

Disclaimer

This program uses the Groth16 and Groth-Maller protocols, both of which are relatively new protocols only originating in 2016 and 2017. While these protocols have been given extensive peer review, their use comes with the standard cryptography disclaimers. This protocol is also only secure under KEA1 and makes no security guarantees such as constant time implementation or side-channel attack resistance. This is provided strictly without warranty and only for non-commercial use.

You are free to to use this work in academic research with no restrictions except for a citation to the repository.

@misc{Stephen2020,
  author = {Stephen Diehl},
  title = {ZKP Compiler},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/adjoint-io/zkp}},
  commit = {4f6d08a541e31b87fa8b2a5ee7246ffde17dd361}
}

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