On the Confidentiality of Information Dispersal Algorithms and Their Erasure Codes
Mingqiang Li · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012
\emph{Information Dispersal Algorithms (IDAs)} have been widely applied to reliable and secure storage and transmission of data files in distributed systems. An IDA is a method that encodes a file $F$ of size $L=|F|$ into $n$ unrecognizable pieces $F_1$, $F_2$, ..., $F_n$, each of size $L/m$ ($m