Cellular automata have been used for design of cryptosystems. Recently some secret sharing schemes based on linear memory cellular automata have been introduced which are used for both text and image. In this paper, we illustrate that these secret sharing schemes are vulnerable to dishonest participants’ collusion. We propose a cheating model for the secret sharing schemes based on linear memor...

Along with substantial progress made recently in designing near-optimal mechanisms for multiitem auctions, interesting structural questions have also been raised and studied. In particular, is it true that the seller can always extract more revenue from a market where the buyers value the items higher than another market? In this paper we obtain such a revenue monotonicity result in a general s...

It has been observed that the contrast values for (2, 3) VSS scheme, (2, 4) VSS scheme, (3, 5) VSS scheme and (4, 5) VSS scheme claimed by Wu and Sun (2013) are incorrect. Since the same values are cited and compared by many other researchers in their works, we have calculated and presented the correct values of contrast in this note.