A Private Scheme for distributed ,Shared Secret Generation

A Private Scheme for distributed ,Shared Secret Generation

Title : A Private Scheme for distributed ,Shared Secret Generation
Authors :
Baras, John S.
Corson, M.S.
Poovendran, Radha.

Conference : 1999 IEEE Information Theory and Communications Workshop pp. 8
Date: June 20 - June 25, 1999

We present a scheme for shared secret generations by n members that combines the contributions the members in a fashion such that the individual contribution of each member is not exposed to anyone- including other members. We note that for an external attacker trying to break the n L-bit secrets of the members, the effective search space dimension is nL, meaning that all n keys must be broken simultaneously in order to crack system integrity. We also note that the scheme provides “Unconditional Secrecy”[1].

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