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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Sergio Demian Lerner
<sergio.d.lerner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations!
>
> It a property of the SKCP system that the person who performed the trusted
> setup cannot extract any information from a proof?
>
> In other words, is it proven hard to obtain information from a proof by the
> buyer?

Yes, the secrecy is information theoretic (assuming no implementation
bugs); beyond the truth of the outcome. This holds even if the
initialization is malicious.

The soundness of this scheme is computational-- we're trusting a deep
stack of cryptographic assumptions that the proofs cannot be forged.