Brief announcement: optimal amortized secret sharing with cheater identification

  • Authors:
  • Ashish Choudhury

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • PODC '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the problem of k-out-of-n secret sharing, capable of identifying up to t cheaters, with probability at least (1 - ε), for a given error parameter ε. In any such secret sharing scheme, t k/2 and the lower bound of |Vi| ≥ |S| - 1 / ε + 1 holds. Here Vi denotes the set of all possible ith share, that can be assigned to the ith party and S denotes the set of all possible secrets. To the best of our knowledge, there does not exist any computationally efficient secret sharing scheme with k = 2t+1 (the minimum value of k), where |Vi| exactly matches the lower bound. We show that it is possible to match this bound in the amortized sense.