CHEATING DETECTION AND CHEATER IDENTIFICATION IN CRT-BASED SECRET SHARING SCHEMES

Authors

  • Daniel Pasailă
  • Vlad Alexa
  • Sorin Iftene

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.9.2.702

Keywords:

Secret sharing, Chinese remainder theorem, cheater detection, cheater identification.

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the cheating detection and cheater identification problems for the secret sharing schemes based on the Chinese remainder theorem (CRT), more exactly for Mignotte [1] and Asmuth-Bloom [2] schemes. We prove that the majority of the solutions for Shamir’s scheme [3] can be translated to these schemes and, moreover, there are some interesting specific solutions.

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2010-12-20

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Pasailă, D., Alexa, V., & Iftene, S. (2010). CHEATING DETECTION AND CHEATER IDENTIFICATION IN CRT-BASED SECRET SHARING SCHEMES. International Journal of Computing, 9(2), 107-117. https://doi.org/10.47839/ijc.9.2.702

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