Abstract:Secret sharing is the well-known problem of splitting a secret into multiple shares, which are distributed to shareholders. When enough or the correct combination of shareholders work together the secret can be restored. We introduce two new types of shares to the secret sharing scheme of Shamir. Crucial shares are always needed for the reconstruction of the secret, whereas mutual redundant shares only help once in reconstructing the secret. Further, we extend the idea of crucial and redundant shares to a comp… Show more
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