Tight Bounds on the Information Rate of Secret SharingSchemes

  • Authors:
  • Carlo Blundo;Alfredo De Santis;Roberto De Simone;Ugo Vaccaro

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni, Università di Salerno, 84081 Baronissi (SA), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

A secret sharing scheme is a protocol by means of whicha dealer distributes a secret s among a set of participantsP in such a way that only qualified subsets ofP can reconstruct the value of s whereasany other subset of P, non-qualified to know s,cannot determine anything about the value of the secret. In this paper we provide a general technique to prove upper boundson the information rate of secret sharing schemes. The informationrate is the ratio between the size of the secret and the sizeof the largest share given to any participant. Most of the recentupper bounds on the information rate obtained in the literaturecan be seen as corollaries of our result. Moreover, we provethat for any integer d there exists a d-regulargraph for which any secret sharing scheme has information rateupper bounded by 2/(d+1). This improves on van Dijk‘sresult dik and matches the corresponding lower bound proved byStinson in [22].