TY - JOUR
T1 - Server-aided multi-secret sharing scheme for weak computational devices
AU - Zhang, En
AU - Duan, Xintao
AU - Yiu, Siuming
AU - Fang, Junbin
AU - Jiang, Zoe L.
AU - Yuen, Tsz Hon
AU - Peng, Jie
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1604156, 61602158, 61772176) and Science and Technology Research Project of Henan Province (172102210045).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Tech Science Press.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In the setting of (t, n) threshold secret sharing, at least t parties can reconstruct the secret, and fewer than t parties learn nothing about the secret. However, to achieve fairness, the existing secret sharing schemes either assume a trusted party exists or require running multi-round, which is not practical in a real application. In addition, the cost of verification grows dramatically with the number of participants and the communication complexity is O(t), if there is not a trusted combiner in the reconstruction phase. In this work, we propose a fair server-aided multi-secret sharing scheme for weak computational devices. The malicious behavior of clients or server providers in the scheme can be verified, and the server provider learns nothing about the secret shadows and the secrets. Unlike other secret sharing schemes, our scheme does not require interaction among users and can work in asynchronous mode, which is suitable for mobile networks or cloud computing environments since weak computational mobile devices are not always online. Moreover, in the scheme, the secret shadow is reusable, and expensive computation such as reconstruction computation and homomorphic verification computation can be outsourced to the server provider, and the users only require a small amount of computation.
AB - In the setting of (t, n) threshold secret sharing, at least t parties can reconstruct the secret, and fewer than t parties learn nothing about the secret. However, to achieve fairness, the existing secret sharing schemes either assume a trusted party exists or require running multi-round, which is not practical in a real application. In addition, the cost of verification grows dramatically with the number of participants and the communication complexity is O(t), if there is not a trusted combiner in the reconstruction phase. In this work, we propose a fair server-aided multi-secret sharing scheme for weak computational devices. The malicious behavior of clients or server providers in the scheme can be verified, and the server provider learns nothing about the secret shadows and the secrets. Unlike other secret sharing schemes, our scheme does not require interaction among users and can work in asynchronous mode, which is suitable for mobile networks or cloud computing environments since weak computational mobile devices are not always online. Moreover, in the scheme, the secret shadow is reusable, and expensive computation such as reconstruction computation and homomorphic verification computation can be outsourced to the server provider, and the users only require a small amount of computation.
KW - fairness
KW - non-interactive
KW - Secret sharing
KW - server-aided
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85054174564
U2 - 10.3970/cmc.2018.03733
DO - 10.3970/cmc.2018.03733
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054174564
SN - 1546-2218
VL - 56
SP - 401
EP - 414
JO - Computers, Materials and Continua
JF - Computers, Materials and Continua
IS - 3
ER -