Threshold encryption into multiple ciphertexts

  • Authors:
  • Martin Stanek

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Venue:
  • FPS'11 Proceedings of the 4th Canada-France MITACS conference on Foundations and Practice of Security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose (T ,N ) multi-ciphertext scheme for symmetric encryption. The scheme encrypts a message into N distinct ciphertexts. The knowledge of the symmetric key allows decryption of the original message from any ciphertext. Moreover, knowing T +1 ciphertexts allows efficient recovery of the original message without the key, and without revealing the key as well. We define the security property of the scheme, and prove the security of the proposed scheme. We discuss several variants of the basic scheme that provides additional authenticity and efficiency.