DocumentCode :
108662
Title :
Comments on ´fair (t, n) threshold secret sharing scheme´
Author :
Lein Harn
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. Electr. Eng., Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA
Volume :
8
Issue :
6
fYear :
2014
fDate :
Nov. 2014
Firstpage :
303
Lastpage :
304
Abstract :
Tian et al. have proposed a fair (t, n) threshold secret sharing scheme recently. Three attacks have been introduced and analysed in this study. Among them, two attacks are associated with a synchronous network where the shares are released simultaneously, and one attack is associated with an asynchronous network where the shares are released asynchronously. In this study, the authors want to point out that the scheme only works properly in a synchronous network; but not in an asynchronous network. In other words, Theorem 3 in their paper which was associated with the attack in an asynchronous network is incorrect.
Keywords :
cryptography; asynchronous network; fair (t,n) threshold secret sharing scheme; network attacks; synchronous network;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Information Security, IET
Publisher :
iet
ISSN :
1751-8709
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1049/iet-ifs.2013.0302
Filename :
6923782
Link To Document :
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