Ah, I see.

For that objective, your construction looks reasonable if m’ is a one-time 
challenge from the verifier.  But you would need a proof of security to be sure.

— Mike

> On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Jan Moritz Lindemann <pa...@panda.cat> wrote:
> 
> Probably I was a little bit wrong in my formulation. The objective is to 
> prove that I know a signature without that the receiver of the proof can be 
> capable of pretending that he knows it.
> Do you think that the design is suitable and safe for such an use case?
> 
> 2016-02-17 14:39 GMT-05:00 Mike Hamburg <m...@shiftleft.org 
> <mailto:m...@shiftleft.org>>:
> It seems to me that the StackExchange comments on this are correct.  That is, 
> your technique doesn’t reveal s, but it is not zero-knowledge with respect to 
> (r,s).  Instead, it reveals r and sR, which provide nonzero “knowledge” about 
> (r,s).
> 
> This is important, because someone who wants a zkp for these signatures 
> probably doesn’t want the proofs to be linkable.  That is, they don’t want 
> there to be an efficient algorithm which sees only the zkp’s to be able to 
> tell if they came from the same starting signature (r,s).  Since your 
> technique reveals (r,sR), it is linkable.
> 
> Cheers,
> — Mike
> 
>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 11:14 AM, Jan Moritz Lindemann <pa...@panda.cat 
>> <mailto:pa...@panda.cat>> wrote:
>> 
>> Some days ago I posted a design for a zkp on ECDSA signatures and I would 
>> like it to be peer reviewed.
>> Zkp proposal can be seen here: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/32608 
>> <http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/32608>
>> 
>> Jan Moritz,
>> 
>> PS: Do you know any other zkp on ECDSA sigantures?
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