A new scheme to verifiably redistribute a secret from the old to new shareholders without reconstruction of the secret is presented in this paper. The scheme allows redistribution between different access structures a...A new scheme to verifiably redistribute a secret from the old to new shareholders without reconstruction of the secret is presented in this paper. The scheme allows redistribution between different access structures and between different threshold schemes. A point worth mentioning is that this verifiable secret redistribution (VSR) scheme can identify dishonest old shareholders during redistribution without any assumption. A certain technique is adopted to verify the correctness of the old shares of the secret. As a result, the scheme is very efficient. It can be applied to proactive secret sharing (PSS) schemes to construct more flexible and practical proactive secret sharing schemes.展开更多
文摘A new scheme to verifiably redistribute a secret from the old to new shareholders without reconstruction of the secret is presented in this paper. The scheme allows redistribution between different access structures and between different threshold schemes. A point worth mentioning is that this verifiable secret redistribution (VSR) scheme can identify dishonest old shareholders during redistribution without any assumption. A certain technique is adopted to verify the correctness of the old shares of the secret. As a result, the scheme is very efficient. It can be applied to proactive secret sharing (PSS) schemes to construct more flexible and practical proactive secret sharing schemes.