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Smallest graphs achieving the Stinson bound

Cryptography and Security 2019-06-28 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Perfect secret sharing scheme is a method of distribute a secret information ss among participants such that only predefined coalitions, called qualified subsets of the participants can recover the secret, whereas any other coalitions, the unqualified subsets cannot determine anything about the secret. The most important property is the efficiency of the system, which is measured by the information ratio. It can be shown that for graphs the information ratio is at most (δ+1)/2(\delta+1)/2 where δ\delta is the maximal degree of the graph. Blundo et al. constructed a family of δ\delta-regular graphs with information ratio (δ+1)/2(\delta+1)/2 on at least c6δc\cdot 6^\delta vertices. We improve this result by constructing a significantly smaller graph family on c2δc\cdot 2^\delta vertices achieving the same upper bound both in the worst and the average case.

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@article{arxiv.1906.11598,
  title  = {Smallest graphs achieving the Stinson bound},
  author = {Mate Gyarmati and Peter Ligeti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.11598},
  year   = {2019}
}
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