Open AccessMobile proactive secret sharing
Author(s) -
David Schultz,
Barbara Liskov,
Moses Liskov
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
citeseer x (the pennsylvania state university)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1145/1400751.1400856
Subject(s) - asynchronous communication , control reconfiguration , computer science , secret sharing , computer security , computer network , distributed computing , cryptography , embedded system
This thesis describes mobile proactive secret sharing (MPSS), an extension of proac- tive secret sharing. Mobile proactive secret sharing is much more flexible than proac- tive secret sharing in terms of group membership: instead of the group of shareholders being exactly the same from one epoch to the next, we allow the group to change arbitrarily. In addition, we allow for an increase or decrease of the threshold at each epoch. We give the first known,efficient protocol for MPSS in the asynchronous
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