Secret sharing schemes and polymatroids

• Main Author: Yang, An
• Other Authors: Xing Chaoping
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Mathematics::Discrete mathematics::Cryptography
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/59108
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Secret sharing, which refers to methods of distributing a secret value among a group of participants, is a very important primitive in cryptology. This thesis contains some contribution to this topic. The results that are presented herein deal with two of the main open problems in secret sharing: th...