In this paper, we investigate the problem of increasing the threshold parameter of the Shamir (t, n)-threshold scheme without interacting with the dealer. Our construction will re...
Consider a scenario where an l-bit secret has been distributed among n players by an honest dealer using some secret sharing scheme. Then, if all players behave honestly, the secre...
We consider the randomized consensus protocol of Aspnes and Herlihy for achieving agreement among N asynchronous processes that communicate via read/write shared registers. The alg...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, Roberto Segal...
We revisit meet-in-the-middle attacks on block ciphers and recent developments in meet-in-the-middle preimage attacks on hash functions. Despite the presence of a secret key in the...
Lei Wei, Christian Rechberger, Jian Guo 0001, Hong...
A group key agreement (GKA) protocol allows a set of users to establish a common secret via open networks. Observing that a major goal of GKAs for most applications is to establish...
Qianhong Wu, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo, Bo Qin, Josep Do...