Threshold cryptosystems

  • Authors:
  • Yvo G. Desmedt;Yair Frankel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '89 Proceedings on Advances in cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

In a society oriented cryptography it is better to have a public key for the company (organization) than having one for each individual employee [Des88]. Certainly in emergency situations, power is shared in many organizations. Solutions to this problem were presented [Des88], based on [GMW87], but are completely impractical and interactive. In this paper practical non-interactive public key systems are proposed which allow the reuse of the shared secret key since the key is not revealed either to insiders or to outsiders.