• 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