The first construction of strongly secure quantum ramp secret sharing by Zhang and Matsumoto had an undesirable feature that the dimension of quantum shares must be larger than the number of shares. By using algebraic curves over finite fields, we propose a new construction in which the number of shares can become arbitrarily large for fixed dimension of shares.Keywords algebraic curve · quantum secret sharing · non-perfect secret sharing · ramp secret sharing · strong security PACS 03.67.Dd
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IntroductionSecret sharing (SS) scheme encodes a secret into multiple shares being distributed to participants, so that only qualified sets of shares can reconstruct the secret perfectly [13]. The secret and shares are traditionally classical information [13], but now quantum secret and quantum shares can also be used [3,4,11].In perfect SS, if a set of shares is not qualified, that is, it cannot reconstruct the secret perfectly, then the set has absolutely no information about the secret. It is wellknown that the share sizes in perfect SS must be larger than or equal to that of the secret, both in classical and quantum cases. To overcome this inefficiency of storing shares, the ramp classical SS was proposed [1,8,14], which reduces the share sizes at the cost of allowing partial information leakage to non-qualified sets of shares. In