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Zero-Knowledge Proof of Knowledge for Peg Solitaire

Author Xavier Bultel

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  • Theory of computation → Interactive proof systems
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  • Zero-Knowledge Proof
  • Peg Solitaire

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Abstract

Peg solitaire is a very popular traditional single-player board game, known to be NP-complete. In this paper, we present a zero-knowledge proof of knowledge for solutions of peg solitaire instances. Our proof is straightforward, in the sense that it does not use any reduction to another NP-complete problem, and uses the standard design of sigma protocols. Our construction relies on cryptographic commitments, which can be replaced by envelopes to make the protocol physical. As a side contribution, we introduce the notion of isomorphisms for peg solitaire, which is the key tool of our protocol.

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Xavier Bultel. Zero-Knowledge Proof of Knowledge for Peg Solitaire. In 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 226, pp. 9:1-9:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2022.9

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Xavier Bultel
  • INSA Centre Val de Loire, Laboratoire d’informatique fondamentale d'Orléans, Bourges, France

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