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
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