Pedersen commitment

GPTKB entity

Statements (28)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf cryptographic commitment scheme
gptkbp:application digital cash
confidential transactions
mix networks
secure voting
range proofs
gptkbp:assumes hardness of discrete logarithm
gptkbp:basedOn discrete logarithm problem
gptkbp:category public-key cryptography
commitment scheme
gptkbp:citation Pedersen, T. P. (1991). Non-interactive and information-theoretic secure verifiable secret sharing. CRYPTO 1991.
gptkbp:commitmentValue C = g^m h^r mod p
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pedersen commitment
gptkbp:introducedIn 1991
gptkbp:inventedBy Torben Pryds Pedersen
gptkbp:parameter prime p
generator g
generator h
message m
random r
gptkbp:property binding
hiding
homomorphic
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:cryptocurrency
cryptography
zero-knowledge proofs
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Confidential_Transactions
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7