[Resource Topic] 2023/1168: Evolving Homomorphic Secret Sharing for Hierarchical Access Structures

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Title:
Evolving Homomorphic Secret Sharing for Hierarchical Access Structures

Authors: Kittiphop Phalakarn, Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn, Nuttapong Attrapadung, Kanta Matsuura

Abstract:

Secret sharing is a cryptographic primitive that divides a secret into several shares, and allows only some combinations of shares to recover the secret. As it can also be used in secure multi-party computation protocol with outsourcing servers, several variations of secret sharing are devised for this purpose. Most of the existing protocols require the number of computing servers to be determined in advance. However, in some situations we may want the system to be “evolving”. We may want to increase the number of servers and strengthen the security guarantee later in order to improve availability and security of the system. Although evolving secret sharing schemes are available, they do not support computing on shares. On the other hand, “homomorphic” secret sharing allows computing on shares with small communication, but they are not evolving. As the contribution of our work, we give the definition of “evolving homomorphic” secret sharing supporting both properties. We propose two schemes, one with hierarchical access structure supporting multiplication, and the other with partially hierarchical access structure supporting computation of low degree polynomials. Comparing to the work with similar functionality of Choudhuri et al. (IACR ePrint 2020), our schemes have smaller communication costs.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1168

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