A study of the separating property in Reed-Solomon codes by bounding the minimum distance

Abstract According to their strength, the tracing properties of a code can be categorized as frameproof, separating, IPP and TA. It is known that, if minimum distance larger than certain threshold then TA property implies rest. Silverberg et al. ask there some kind capability left when falls below threshold. Under different assumptions, several papers have given negative answer question. In this paper, further progress made. We establish values for which Reed-Solomon codes do not posses separating property.