Title :
On the information rate of perfect secret sharing schemes
Author :
Van Dijk, Marten
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
fDate :
27 Jun-1 Jul 1994
Abstract :
We present a method to derive information theoretical upper bounds on the information rate and average information rate of perfect secret sharing schemes. One of the applications is that in perfect secret sharing schemes for some access structures the shares need to be impractically large
Keywords :
channel capacity; access structures; average information rate; entropies; information rate; perfect secret sharing schemes; upper bounds; Application software; Computer science; Cryptography; Entropy; Information rates; Mathematics; Mutual information; Particle measurements; Uncertainty; Upper bound;
Conference_Titel :
Information Theory, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Trondheim
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2015-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISIT.1994.395104
