[Cryptography] ZK meeting scheduling protocol?

Jonathan Katz jkatz at cs.umd.edu
Sun Jan 15 17:45:26 EST 2017


On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
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> On 01/14/2017 06:51 AM, Henry Baker wrote:
>> As most of you already know, Microsoft Outlook provides some protocols for helping to schedule meetings via email.
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>> Has anyone developed a zero knowledge protocol for such scheduling?
>
> You mentioned zero-knowledge proofs but I do not see one in your
> protocol requirements.  I'm assuming there isn't a ZKP going on
> here. If I'm wrong, then who are Peggy and Victor?  What is
> Peggy trying to prove and what is Victor trying to verify?

I think what you actually want to look at is secure multi-party
computation, which is related to (but not the same as) zero-knowledge
proofs.

The problem doesn't really have anything to do with the Byzantine
generals problem, multiparty key exchange, or the dining
cryptographers problem.


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