All or Nothing at All

Paolo D'Arco; Navid Nasr Esfahani; Douglas R.  Stinson

Paper 2015/998

All or Nothing at All

Paolo D'Arco, Navid Nasr Esfahani, and Douglas R. Stinson

Abstract

We continue a study of unconditionally secure all-or-nothing transforms (AONT) begun in \cite{St}. An AONT is a bijective mapping that constructs $s$ outputs from $s$ inputs. We consider the security of $t$ inputs, when $s-t$ outputs are known. Previous work concerned the case $t=1$; here we consider the problem for general $t$, focussing on the case $t=2$. We investigate constructions of binary matrices for which the desired properties hold with the maximum probability. Upper bounds on these probabilities are obtained via a quadratic programming approach, while lower bounds can be obtained from combinatorial constructions based on symmetric BIBDs and cyclotomy. We also report some results on exhaustive searches and random constructions for small values of $s$.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: combinatorial cryptography
Contact author(s): dstinson @ uwaterloo ca
History: 2015-10-15: revised; 2015-10-14: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2015/998
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/998,
      author = {Paolo D'Arco and Navid Nasr Esfahani and Douglas R.  Stinson},
      title = {All or Nothing at All},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/998},
      year = {2015},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/998}
}