X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/doc/wrestlers/blobdiff_plain/a6e375a6211f5c082a45c9424a96820054219a55:/background.tex..dff0fad2fb0c4edacbe668fdd72030e7e8ac5db7:/wr-backg.tex diff --git a/background.tex b/wr-backg.tex similarity index 99% rename from background.tex rename to wr-backg.tex index f2a6554..d08fe6d 100644 --- a/background.tex +++ b/wr-backg.tex @@ -321,8 +321,8 @@ \item Soundness: if $P^*$ convinces $V$ with probability $p > \frac{1}{2}$ then we can, in theory, run $P^*$ with (say) $c = 0$ and get $\gamma$. We then \emph{rewind} $P^*$, give it $c = 1$, and get $\gamma \beta$, - from which we compute $\beta$. This works with probability at least $p - - \frac{1}{2}$. + from which we compute $\beta$. This works with probability at least $2 + (p - \frac{1}{2})$. \end{itemize} \end{slide} @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ guaranteed to lose. On the other hand, if $n > r$, there must be a winning row, because there are too many ones to fit otherwise. In fact, there must be at least $n - r$ -winning rows. So our probability of winning must be at least $(n - r)/2r$. +winning rows. So our probability of winning must be at least $(n - r)/r$. Apply this to the problem of our dishonest prover. The `table''s rows are indexed by all the possible inputs to the prover -- the value $\alpha$ and @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ its own internal coin tosses. (We only consider provers running in bounded time, so these are finite.) The columns are indexed by our coin $c$. We know that $2 r p$ of the entries contain $1$. Hence, the probability that we win is at least -\[ \frac{2 r p - r}{2 r} = p - \frac{1}{2}. \] +\[ \frac{2 r p - r}{r} = 2 \biggl( p - \frac{1}{2} \biggr). \] \begin{slide} \head{Zero-knowledge \seq: an example (cont.)}