Better secret sharing via robust conditional disclosure of secrets
Benny Applebaum, Amos Beimel, Oded Nir, Naty Peter · 2020
A secret-sharing scheme allows to distribute a secret s among n parties such that only some predefined “authorized” sets of parties can reconstruct the secret, and all other “unauthorized” sets learn nothing about s. For over 30 years, it was known that any (monotone) collection of authorized sets can be realized by a secret-sharing scheme whose shares are of size 2 n−o(n) and until recently no better scheme was known. In a recent breakthrough, Liu and Vaikuntanathan (STOC 2018) have reduced the share size to 20.994n+o(n), which was later improved to 20.892n+o(n) by Applebaum et al. (EUROCRYPT 2019).