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A Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Group Presentations and the Word Problem

Cryptography and Security 2012-05-02 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

A (t,n)-threshold secret sharing scheme is a method to distribute a secret among n participants in such a way that any t participants can recover the secret, but no t-1 participants can. In this paper, we propose two secret sharing schemes using non-abelian groups. One scheme is the special case where all the participants must get together to recover the secret. The other one is a (t,n)-threshold scheme that is a combination of Shamir's scheme and the group-theoretic scheme proposed in this paper.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0157,
  title  = {A Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Group Presentations and the Word Problem},
  author = {Maggie Habeeb and Delaram Kahrobaei and Vladimir Shpilrain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0157},
  year   = {2012}
}

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8 pages

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