Non-Existence of Homomorphic General Sharing Schemes for Some Key Spaces (Extended Abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Yair Frankel;Yvo Desmedt;Mike Burmester

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '92 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Homomorphic threshold schemes were introduced by Benaloh and have found several applications. In this paper we prove that there do not exist perfect finite homomorphic general monotone sharing schemes for which the key space is a finite non-Abelian group (except for very particular access structures). This result is valid for the most general case, e.g., if each participant receives shares from different sets and when these sets are not necessarily groups.We extend the definition of homomorphic threshold scheme to allow that the homomorphic property is valid for two-operations when the set of keys is a finite Boolean Algebra or a Galois field then there does not exist a perfect finite two-operation-homomorphio general sharing scheme.