Paper 2007/076
Almost Secure (1-Round, n-Channel) Message Transmission Scheme
Kaoru Kurosawa and Kazuhiro Suzuki
Abstract
It is known that perfectly secure ($1$-round, $n$-channel) message transmission (MT) schemes exist if and only if $n \geq 3t+1$, where $t$ is the number of channels that the adversary can corrupt. Then does there exist an {\it almost} secure MT scheme for $n=2t+1$ ? In this paper, we first sum up a number flaws of the previous {\it almost} secure MT scheme presented at Crypto 2004. (The authors already noted in thier presentation at Crypto'2004 that their scheme was flawed.) We next show an equivalence between almost secure MT schemes and secret sharing schemes with cheaters. By using our equivalence, we derive a lower bound on the communication complexity of almost secure MT schemes. Finally, we present a near optimum scheme which meets our bound approximately. This is the first construction of provably secure almost secure ($1$-round, $n$-channel) MT schemes for $n=2t+1$.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- Private and reliable transmissioninformation theoretic securitycommunication efficiency
- Contact author(s)
- kurosawa @ mx ibaraki ac jp
- History
- 2007-05-07: revised
- 2007-02-28: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2007/076
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/076,
author = {Kaoru Kurosawa and Kazuhiro Suzuki},
title = {Almost Secure (1-Round, n-Channel) Message Transmission Scheme},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/076},
year = {2007},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/076}
}
