• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.4552-4567
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• 2014

A (n,t,n) secret sharing scheme is to share a secret among n group members, where each member also plays a role of a dealer,and any t shares can be used to recover the secret. In this paper, we propose a strong (k,t,n) verifiable multi-secret sharing scheme, where any k out of n participants operate as dealers. The scheme realizes both threshold structure and adversary structure simultaneously, and removes a trusted third party. The secret reconstruction phase is performed using an additive homomorphism for decreasing the storage cost. Meanwhile, the scheme achieves the pre-verification property in the sense that any participant doesn't need to reveal any information about real master shares in the verification phase. We compare our proposal with the previous (n,t,n) secret sharing schemes from the perspectives of what kinds of access structures they achieve, what kinds of functionalities they support and whether heavy storage cost for secret share is required. Then it shows that our scheme takes the following advantages: (a) realizing the adversary structure, (b) allowing any k out of n participants to operate as dealers, (c) small sized secret share. Moreover, our proposed scheme is a favorable candidate to be used in many applications, such as secure multi-party computation and privacy preserving data mining, etc.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.953-960
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• 2014

In Shamir's (t,n)-threshold based secret image sharing schemes, there exists a problem that the secret image can be reconstructed when an arbitrary attacker becomes aware of t secret image pieces, or t participants are malicious collusion. It is because that utilizes linear combination polynomial arithmetic operation. In order to overcome the problem, we propose a secret image sharing scheme using matrix decomposition and adversary structure. In the proposed scheme, there is no reconstruction of the secret image even when an arbitrary attacker become aware of t secret image pieces. Also, we utilize a simple matrix decomposition operation in order to improve the security of the secret image. In experiments, we show that performances of embedding capacity and image distortion ratio of the proposed scheme are superior to previous schemes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1037-1044
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• 2014

A (t,n) threshold secret sharing scheme is the scheme which allows a trusted party to distribute the shares among n participants in such a way that any t of them can recover the original secret, but any group knowing only t-1 or fewer shares can not. Recently, Eslami et al. and Tadayon et al. proposed threshold multi-secret sharing schemes, respectively. They proposed that their schemes don't require secure channels. But, without secure channels in their schemes, everyone can get the shares and find the secrets. The proposed scheme does not use secure channels and only t participants can solve the equations of the system from the delivered share shadows and find the secrets.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.11C no.5
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• pp.585-594
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• 2004

When several service providers want to work together with only one master key, they need to properly distribute the key to participants who come in for the co-work business and then securely manage the distributed keys. This paper describes the system that can efficiently and securely manage the master key on the basis of the secret sharing scheme that can reconstruct original secret information as the necessity of reconstructing original secret arises. The proposed system can distribute secret information to several groups and also redistribute the secret to subgroup in proportion to the participant's security level using smart card-based (t, t)-(k, n)-threshold secret scheme for securely keeping secret information and authentication of participant's identification.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.979-989
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• 2015

Recently, Hou and others introduced a (2, n) block-based progressive visual cryptographic scheme (BPVCS) in which image blocks can be gradually recovered step by step. In Hou and others' (2, n)-BPVCS, a secret image is subdivided into n non-overlapping image blocks. When t ($2{\leq}t{\leq} n$) participants stack their shadow images, all the image blocks associated with these t participants will be recovered. However, Hou and others' scheme is only a simple 2-out-of-n case. In this paper, we discuss a general (k, n)-BPVCS for any k and n. Our main contribution is to give two constructions (Construction 1 and Construction 2) of this general (k, n)-BPVCS. Also, we theoretically prove that both constructions satisfy a threshold property and progressive recovery of the proposed (k, n)-BPVCS. For k = 2, Construction 1 is reduced to Hou and others' (2, n)-BPVCS.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1052-1055
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• 2007

비밀 분산법은 암호화된 정보를 해독하는데 필요한 비밀 키를 여러 조각(share or shadow)으로 나누어서 권한이 있는 다수의 참여자에게 분산시키고 키의 복원이 필요할 때 비밀 정책에 따른 참여자들이 모여서 키를 복구하는 암호 프로토콜이다. 비밀 분산법의 특징은 비밀 키의 손실을 방지하는 차원도 있지만 그보다는 비밀 키를 가진 참여자의 권한을 분배함으로써 권한의 오남용을 방지하는 것이다. 기존의 (t,n)임계 기법에서의 비밀 분산법에서는 권한이 있는 참여자 n명 중에서 t명이 모였을 경우 비밀 키를 복원함으로써 권한의 문제를 해결했지만, 이 논문에서 제안된 기법은 비밀 키를 복원하는데 변경된 (t,n)+1 임계 기법(여기서 1은 n에 포함되지 않는 별도의 참여자)에서의 비밀 분산법을 사용함으로써 비밀 키를 복원하고 권한의 문제를 해결한다. 제안된 기법은 다수의 합의가 필요로 하는 분야에 다양하게 적용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.236-238
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• 2012

Ad-hoc 네트워크에서 각 노드는 분산 및 협동을 통해 자체적으로 이웃노드와 무선네트워크를 구축하고 주고받게 된다. 그러나 Ad-hoc 네트워크에서 하위노드의 제한적인 저장/통신/계산 능력, 상호인증의 어려움 등으로 기존의 보안대책을 그대로 적용할 수 없어 Ad-hoc 네트워크 특성에 맞는 새로운 보안대책이 필요하다. 이를 위해 비밀분산기법 중의 일종인 (t,n) 임계치 기법을 통해 노드를 인증하는 방식이 제안되기도 하였으나, 이는 고정된 t개 노드의 분산정보가 모여야만 원래의 비밀을 복원할 수 있는 것으로 주로 적대적 환경에 배치되어야 하는 전술 Ad-hoc 네트워크의 요구사항과는 부합하지 않는다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 기존의 (t,n) 임계치 기법에 Newton의 보간 다항식을 최초로 적용하여 임계값 t를 동적으로 변경할 수 있는 공개키 인증방식을 제안하고, 그 유효성을 증명하고자 한다.