INFORMATION THAT CONSTITUTES AN OFFICIAL SECRET

What Constitutes an Effective Representation?

This paper presents a taxonomy of 19 cognitive criteria for judging what constitutes effective representational systems, particularly for knowledge rich topics. Two classes of cognitive criteria are discussed. The first concerns access to concepts by reading and making inferences from external representations. The second class addresses the generation and manipulation of external representation...

What constitutes competence? That depends on the task

with a diseased person in an adequate manner demands, consequently, the ability to accrue an understanding of this person ' s unique biographical and relational context, in other words, a historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic competence. This demand precludes predefi ned labelling of a person ' s ailment in general and of reports on complex malfunction in particular. However, both clinical...

Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing - An Information Theoretic Appoach

Secret Sharing and Shared Information

Secret sharing is a cryptographic discipline in which the goal is to distribute information about a secret over a set of participants in such a way that only specific authorized combinations of participants together can reconstruct the secret. Thus, secret sharing schemes are systems of variables in which it is very clearly specified which subsets have information about the secret. As such, the...

Information-Theoretic Secret Key Agreement