Re: Question about Shamir secret sharing scheme

2009-10-04 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 02:42:14AM -0400, Kevin W. Wall wrote: The secret S can then be computed by finding f(0) more or less by using Lagrangian interpolation on the t shares, the points (i, Si). The question that a colleague and I have is there any cryptographic purpose of computing the

Re: Question about Shamir secret sharing scheme

2009-10-04 Thread David-Sarah Hopwood
Kevin W. Wall wrote: Hi list...I have a question about Shamir's secret sharing. According to the _Handbook of Applied Cryptography_ Shamir’s secret sharing (t,n) threshold scheme works as follows: SUMMARY: a trusted party distributes shares of a secret S to n users. RESULT: any

Re: Question about Shamir secret sharing scheme

2009-10-04 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Oct 3, 2009, at 2:42 AM, Kevin W. Wall wrote: Hi list...I have a question about Shamir's secret sharing. According to the _Handbook of Applied Cryptography_ Shamir’s secret sharing (t,n) threshold scheme works as follows: SUMMARY: a trusted party distributes shares of a secret S to n

Re: Question about Shamir secret sharing scheme

2009-10-04 Thread Hal Finney
Kevin W. Wall asks about Shamir sharing: The question that a colleague and I have is there any cryptographic purpose of computing the independent coefficients over the finite field, Zp ? Yes, you do have to be careful to do that. You want to make sure the shares don't leak any information