DocumentCode
778043
Title
On Golomb-Posner codes and a remark of W.W. Wu about secret-sharing systems
Author
Dénes, J. ; Keedwell, A.D.
Volume
38
Issue
3
fYear
1990
fDate
3/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
261
Lastpage
262
Abstract
In a recent book (Elements of Digital Satellite Communication, vol.II, 1985), W.W. Wu has shown that all the secret-sharing systems known at the time his book was written can be described in terms of Reed-Solomon codes. He has also remarked that all are connected with latin squares and has illustrated this remark by means of examples. However, his examples construct secret-sharing systems in which the secret can be unlocked with only two keys. It is shown here that this is necessarily the case when latin squares are used. For this purpose. Wu´s observations are replaced by a theorem, one which also shows a connection with Golomb-Posner codes
Keywords
error correction codes; Golomb-Posner codes; Reed-Solomon codes; latin squares; secret-sharing systems; Books; Communications Society; Filling; Galois fields; Helium; Mathematics; Power generation; Reed-Solomon codes; Satellite communication;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0090-6778
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/26.48879
Filename
48879
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