A Representation of a Family of Secret Sharing Matroids

  • Authors:
  • Siaw-lynn Ng

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, U.K. s.ng@rhbnc.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Deciding whether a matroid is secret sharing or not is a well-known open problem. In Ng and Walker [6] it was shown that a matroid decomposes into uniform matroids under strong connectivity. The question then becomes as follows: when is a matroid m with N uniform components secret sharing? When N = 1, m corresponds to a uniform matroid and hence is secret sharing. In this paper we show, by constructing a representation using projective geometry, that all connected matroids with two uniform components are secret sharing