• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.2865-2878
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• 2021

As a current popular technology, the blockchain has a serious issue: the private key cannot be retrieved due to force majeure. Since the outcome of the blockchain-based Bitcoin, there have been many occurrences of the users who lost or forgot their private keys and could not retrieve their token wallets, and it may cause the permanent loss of their corresponding blockchain accounts, resulting in irreparable losses for the users. We propose a recoverable private key scheme for consortium blockchain based on the verifiable secret sharing which can enable the user's private key in the consortium blockchain to be securely recovered through a verifiable secret sharing method. In our secret sharing scheme, users use the biometric keys to encrypt shares, and the preset committer peers in the consortium blockchain act as the participants to store the users' private key shares. Due to the particularity of the biometric key, only the user can complete the correct secret recovery. Our comparisons with the existing mnemonic systems or the multi-signature schemes have shown that our scheme can allow users to recover their private keys without storing the passwords accurately. Hence, our scheme can improve the account security and recoverability of the data-sharing systems across physical and virtual platforms that use blockchain technology.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권12호
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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.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1037-1044
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• 2014

(t,n) 임계 비밀 공유 방식은 한 신뢰 기관이 n명의 참가자에게 각 할당 값를 나누어 주면 이 중 t명의 참가자들의 할당 값으로 비밀 값을 계산하는 방식이다. 최근 Eslami 등과 Tadayon 등은 한 임계 검증 가능한 다중 비밀 공유방식을 각각 제안 했는데, 그들의 방식이 안전한 채널을 사용하지 않는다고 했으나, 안전한 채널이 없다면 누구나 할당 값을 가질 수 있고 비밀 값을 구할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방식은 안전한 채널을 사용하지 않고, 전송된 메시지로부터 t명의 컴바이너들만 필요한 값을 구해 시스템의 방정식을 풀 수 있고 비밀 값들을 구할 수 있다.