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This paper puts a new light on secure data storage inside distributed systems. Specifically, it revisits computational secret sharing in a situation where the encryption key is exposed to an attacker. It comes with several contributions:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Katarzyna Kapusta , Gerard Memmi , Matthieu Rambaud

A novel information theoretic approach is proposed to solve the secret sharing problem, in which a dealer distributes one or multiple secrets among a set of participants that for each secret only qualified sets of users can recover it by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Shaofeng Zou , Yingbin Liang , Lifeng Lai , Shlomo Shamai

Secret sharing schemes are widely used now a days in various applications, which need more security, trust and reliability. In secret sharing scheme, the secret is divided among the participants and only authorized set of participants can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-24 V P Binu , A Sreekumar

We consider the problem of private distributed multi-party multiplication. It is well-established that Shamir secret-sharing coding strategies can enable perfect information-theoretic privacy in distributed computation via the celebrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Viveck R. Cadambe , Ateet Devulapalli , Haewon Jeong , Flavio P. Calmon

To provide an added security level most of the existing reversible as well as irreversible image steganography schemes emphasize on encrypting the secret image (payload) before embedding it to the cover image. The complexity of encryption…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Soumendu Chakraborty , Anand Singh Jalal , Charul Bhatnagar

Secret sharing allows three or more parties to share secret information which can only be decrypted through collaboration. It complements quantum key distribution as a valuable resource for securely distributing information. Here we take…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Michael de Oliveira , Isaac Nape , Jonathan Pinnell , Najmeh TabeBordbar , Andrew Forbes

We present a simple new technique to secure quantum key distribution relay networks using secret sharing. Previous techniques have relied on creating distinct physical paths in order to create the shares. We show, however, how this can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Stephen M. Barnett , Simon J. D. Phoenix

Secret sharing schemes create an effective method to safeguard a secret by dividing it among several participants. By using hash functions and the herding hashes technique, we first set up a (t+1, n) threshold scheme which is perfect and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Chi Sing Chum , Xiaowen Zhang

In quantum secret sharing, a quantum secret state is mapped to multiple shares such that shares from qualified sets can recover the secret state and shares from other forbidden sets reveal nothing about the secret state; we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Hua Sun

A {k,n}-threshold scheme based on two-dimensional memory cellular automata is proposed to share images in a secret way. This method allows to encode an image into n shared images so that only qualified subsets of k or more shares can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gonzalo Alvarez , Luis Hernandez , Angel Martin

Secret sharing, in which a dealer wants to split a secret in such a way that any unauthorized subset of parties is unable to reconstruct it, plays a key role in cryptography. The security of quantum protocols for the task is guaranteed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Kejin Wei , Xiuqing Yang , Haiqiang Ma , Changhua Zhu

This paper proposes a system, entitled Concealer that allows sharing time-varying spatial data (e.g., as produced by sensors) in encrypted form to an untrusted third-party service provider to provide location-based applications (involving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Peeyush Gupta , Sharad Mehrotra , Shantanu Sharma , Nalini Venkatasubramanian , Guoxi Wang

The family of Information Dispersal Algorithms is applied to distributed systems for secure and reliable storage and transmission. In comparison with perfect secret sharing it achieves a significantly smaller memory overhead and better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Katarzyna Kapusta , Gerard Memmi , Hassan Noura

A computational secret-sharing scheme is a method that enables a dealer, that has a secret, to distribute this secret among a set of parties such that a "qualified" subset of parties can efficiently reconstruct the secret while any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Ilan Komargodski , Moni Naor , Eylon Yogev

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), an enhancement of 5G, processes data closer to its generation point, reducing latency and network load. However, the distributed and edge-based nature of 5G-MEC presents privacy and security challenges,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Thilina Pathirana , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Data privacy is an important issue for organizations and enterprises to securely outsource data storage, sharing, and computation on clouds / fogs. However, data encryption is complicated in terms of the key management and distribution;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Jenn-Bing Ong , Wee-Keong Ng , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chao Li , Jielin Yang , Sai None Myne , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam , C. -C. Jay Kuo

This paper considers the secretive coded caching problem with shared caches in which no user must have access to the files that it did not demand. In a shared cache network, the users are served by a smaller number of helper caches and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

This paper introduces the first two-dimensional XOR-based secret sharing scheme for layered multipath communication networks. We present a construction that guarantees successful message recovery and perfect privacy when an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wai Ming Chan , Remi Chou , Taejoon Kim

Quantum secret sharing is a method for sharing a secret quantum state among a number of individuals such that certain authorized subsets of participants can recover the secret shared state by collaboration and other subsets cannot. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Roozbeh Bassirian , Sadra Boreiri , Vahid Karimipour

Visual cryptography encrypts the secret image into $n$ shares (transparency) so that only stacking a qualified number of shares can recover the secret image by the human visual system while no information can be revealed without a large…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Hong-Bin Chen , Hsiang-Chun Hsu , Justie Su-Tzu Juan