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A Novel Verifiable Secret Sharing with Detection and Identification of Cheaters' Group
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Secret sharing, verifiable secret sharing, honest participants, dishonest participants, single cheater, cheaters' group
Abstract
Shamir's (t, n)-SS scheme is very simple to generate and distribute the shares for a secret among n participants by using such polynomial. We assume the dealer a mutually trust parity when he distributes the shares to participants securely. In addition when the participants pooling their shares in the secret reconstruction phase a honest participants can always reconstruct the real secret by Pooling areal shares. The property of verifiability enables participants to verify that their shares are consistent. Tompa and Woll suggested an important cheating scenario in Shamir's secret reconstruction. They found a solution to remove a single cheater with small probability, unfortunately, their scheme is based on computational assumptions. In addition each participants will receive a huge number of shares. In this paper we will construct scheme to be information-theoretically secure verifiable secret sharing which does not contain a single cheater. On the other hand we will eliminate these problems in Tompa and Woll scheme. Our proposed scheme is not only to detect and identify a cheater, but to prevent him from recovering the secret when the honest participants cannot.
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Qassim Al Mahmoud,"A Novel Verifiable Secret Sharing with Detection and Identification of Cheaters' Group", International Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Computing(IJMSC), Vol.2, No.2, pp.1-13, 2016.DOI: 10.5815/ijmsc.2016.02.01
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