In the paper we discuss how to share the secrets, that are graphs. So, far secret sharing schemes were designed to work with numbers. As the first step, we propose conditions for “graph to number” conversion methods. Hence, the existing schemes can be used, without weakening their properties. Next, we show how graph properties can be used to extend capabilities of secret sharing schemes. This l...

A secret sharing scheme is a method to store information securely and reliably. Particularly, in the threshold secret sharing scheme (due to Shamir), a secret is divided into shares, encoded and distributed to parties, such that any large enough collection of parties can decode the secret, and a smaller (then threshold) set of parties cannot collude to deduce any information about the secret. W...

It is well-known that the linear secret-sharing scheme (LSSS) can be constructed from linear error-correcting codes (Brickell [1], R.J. McEliece and D.V.Sarwate [2],Cramer, el.,[3]). The theory of linear codes from algebraic-geometric curves (algebraic-geometric (AG) codes or geometric Goppa code) has been well-developed since the work of V.Goppa and Tsfasman, Vladut, and Zink( see [17], [18] a...

A secret sharing scheme divides a secret into multiple shares by a dealer and shared among shareholders in such a way that any authorized subset of shareholders can reconstruct the secret; whereas any un-authorized subset of shareholders cannot recover the secret. If the maximal length of shares is equal to the length of the secret in a secret sharing scheme, the scheme is called ideal. If the ...

Randomness is a useful computation resource due to its ability to enhance the capabilities of other resources. Its interaction with resources such as time, space, interaction with provers and its role in several areas of computer science has been extensively studied. In this paper we give a systematic analysis of the amount of randomness needed by secret sharing schemes and secure key distribut...

This paper precisely characterizes secret sharing schemes based on arbitrary linear codes by using the relative dimension/length profile (RDLP) and the relative generalized Hamming weight (RGHW). We first describe the equivocation Δm of the secret vector s = [s1, . . . ,sl ] given m shares in terms of the RDLP of linear codes. We also characterize two thresholds t1 and t2 in the secret sharing ...

Verifiable secret sharing schemes (VSS) are secret sharing schemes dealing with possible cheating by the participants. In this paper, we propose a new unconditionally secure VSS. Then we construct a new proactive secret sharing scheme based on that VSS. In a proactive scheme, the shares are periodically renewed so that an adversary cannot get any information about the secret unless he is able t...

Anonymous secret sharing schemes allow a secret to be recovered from shares regardless of the identity of shareholders. Besides being interesting in its own right, this property is especially appealing to guarantee the anonymity of participants when secret sharing is used as a building block of more general distributed protocols (e.g. to anonymously share the secret key corresponding to a publi...