On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:05 PM, s...@acw.com wrote:
Is it possible that the amount of information that the knowledge of a
sub-threshold number of Shamir fragments leaks in finite precision setting
depends on the finite precision implementation?
For example, if you know 2 of a 3 of 5 splitting and
> Is it possible that the amount of information that the knowledge of a
> sub-threshold number of Shamir fragments leaks in finite precision setting
> depends on the finite precision implementation?
>
> For example, if you know 2 of a 3 of 5 splitting and you also know that
> the finite precision s
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:05 PM, s...@acw.com wrote:
Is it possible that the amount of information that the knowledge of a
sub-threshold number of Shamir fragments leaks in finite precision
setting
depends on the finite precision implementation?
For example, if you know 2 of a 3 of 5 splitting a
Is it possible that the amount of information that the knowledge of a
sub-threshold number of Shamir fragments leaks in finite precision setting
depends on the finite precision implementation?
For example, if you know 2 of a 3 of 5 splitting and you also know that
the finite precision setting in w
On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:03 PM, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Sarad AV
Date: February 17, 2009 9:51:09 AM EST
To: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net
Subject: Shamir secret sharing and information theoretic security
hi,
I was going through the wikipedia example of shamir secret shar
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
hi,
I was going through the wikipedia example of shamir secret sharing which says
it is information theoretically secure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
...
The scheme is defined over a finite field *not* over the integers.
