학술논문

Improved Protocols for Distributed Secret Sharing
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Comput. Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on. 20(5):3558-3571 Jan, 2023
Subject
Computing and Processing
Protocols
Cryptography
Encoding
Complexity theory
Random variables
Image reconstruction
Decoding
Distributed secret sharing
multi-user secret sharing
security protocols
Language
ISSN
1545-5971
1941-0018
2160-9209
Abstract
In Distributed Secret Sharing schemes, secrets are encoded with shares distributed over multiple nodes of a network. Each involved party has access to a subset of the nodes and thus to a subset of the shares and is able to reconstruct a specific secret. Usually, these schemes are evaluated by measuring the required storage overhead, as well as the encoding and decoding complexities. In this paper, we provide new Distributed (multi) Secret Sharing Protocols for $(k,n)$(k,n)-threshold access structures that improve on previous results, characterized by nearly-optimal storage overhead, achieving both storage optimality and a better encoding/decoding complexity. The protocols are also simpler than previous ones and allow for easier encoding.