• 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