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Auteurs principaux: Gupta, Utkarsh, Mahdavifar, Hessam
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Publié: 2024
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author Gupta, Utkarsh
Mahdavifar, Hessam
author_facet Gupta, Utkarsh
Mahdavifar, Hessam
contents Secret sharing is an instrumental tool for sharing secret keys in distributed systems. In a classical threshold setting, this involves a dealer who has a secret/key, a set of parties/users to which shares of the secret are sent, and a threshold on the number of users whose presence is needed in order to recover the secret. In secret sharing, secure links with no leakage are often assumed between the involved parties. However, when the users are nodes in a communication network and all the links are physical links, e.g., wireless, such assumptions are not valid anymore. In order to study this critical problem, we propose a statistical leakage model of secret sharing, where some noisy versions of all the secret shares might be independently leaked to an adversary. We then study the resilience of the seminal Shamir's secret sharing scheme with statistical leakage, and bound certain measures of security (i.e., semantic security, mutual information security), given other parameters of the system including the amount of leakage from each secret share. We show that for an extreme scenario of Shamir's scheme, in particular when the underlying field characteristic is $2$, the security of each bit of the secret against leakage improves exponentially with the number of users. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt towards understanding secret sharing under general statistical noisy leakage.
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spellingShingle Bounds on the Statistical Leakage-Resilience of Shamir's Secret Sharing
Gupta, Utkarsh
Mahdavifar, Hessam
Information Theory
Secret sharing is an instrumental tool for sharing secret keys in distributed systems. In a classical threshold setting, this involves a dealer who has a secret/key, a set of parties/users to which shares of the secret are sent, and a threshold on the number of users whose presence is needed in order to recover the secret. In secret sharing, secure links with no leakage are often assumed between the involved parties. However, when the users are nodes in a communication network and all the links are physical links, e.g., wireless, such assumptions are not valid anymore. In order to study this critical problem, we propose a statistical leakage model of secret sharing, where some noisy versions of all the secret shares might be independently leaked to an adversary. We then study the resilience of the seminal Shamir's secret sharing scheme with statistical leakage, and bound certain measures of security (i.e., semantic security, mutual information security), given other parameters of the system including the amount of leakage from each secret share. We show that for an extreme scenario of Shamir's scheme, in particular when the underlying field characteristic is $2$, the security of each bit of the secret against leakage improves exponentially with the number of users. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt towards understanding secret sharing under general statistical noisy leakage.
title Bounds on the Statistical Leakage-Resilience of Shamir's Secret Sharing
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04622