Efficient multiplicative sharing schemes

  • Authors:
  • Simon R. Blackburn;Mike Burmester;Yvo Desmedt;Peter R. Wild

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom;Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom;Dept. EE & CS, Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee;Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'96 Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Multiplicative threshold schemes are useful tools in threshold cryptography. For example, such schemes can be used with a wide variety of practical homomorphic cryptosystems (such as the RSA, the El Gamal and elliptic curve systems) for threshold decryption, signatures, or proofs. The paper describes a new recursive construction for multiplicative threshold schemes which makes it possible to extend the number of users of such schemes for a relatively small expansion of the share size. We discuss certain properties of the schemes, such as the information rate and zero knowledge aspects. The paper extends the Karnin-Greene-Hellman bound on the parameters of ideal secret sharing schemes to schemes which are not necessarily ideal and then uses this as a yardstick to compare the performance of currently known multiplicative sharing schemes.