Paper 2023/1196
Verifiable Secret Sharing Simplified
Abstract
Verifiable Secret Sharing~(VSS) is a fundamental building block in cryptography. Despite its importance and extensive studies, existing VSS protocols are often complex and inefficient. Many of them do not support dual threads, are not publicly verifiable, or do not properly terminate in asynchronous networks. This paper presents a new and simple approach for designing VSS protocols in synchronous and asynchronous networks. Our VSS protocols are optimally fault-tolerant, i.e., they tolerate a $1/2$ and a $1/3$ fraction of malicious nodes in synchronous and asynchronous networks, respectively. They only require a public key infrastructure and the hardness of discrete logarithms. Our protocols support dual thresholds, and their transcripts are publicly verifiable. We implement our VSS protocols and evaluate them in a geo-distributed setting with up to 256 nodes. The evaluation demonstrates that our protocols offer asynchronous termination and public verifiability with performance that is comparable to that of existing asynchronous VSS schemes that lack these features. Compared to the existing asynchronous VSS schemes with similar guarantees, our approach lowers the bandwidth usage and latency by up to $90\%$.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- Verifiable Secret SharingThreshold CryptographyVSS
- Contact author(s)
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souravd2 @ illinois edu
xiangzhuolun @ gmail com
tomescu alin @ gmail com
sasha spiegelman @ gmail com
benny @ pinkas net
renling @ illinois edu - History
- 2024-02-12: revised
- 2023-08-06: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1196
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1196, author = {Sourav Das and Zhuolun Xiang and Alin Tomescu and Alexander Spiegelman and Benny Pinkas and Ling Ren}, title = {Verifiable Secret Sharing Simplified}, howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1196}, year = {2023}, note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1196}}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1196} }