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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 21, 1996
Amos Beimel, Michmoret, IL;
Ben-Zion Chor, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd., Technion, IL;
Abstract
A method for reconstructing a secret, over a public communication channel, using a perfect t-out-of-n secret sharing scheme. The scheme having a dealer which utilizes a delivering procedure for privately delivering n secret shares of the secret along with n keys to n participants that are interlinked by the channel. The scheme further having a secret reconstructing procedure for being executed by selected recipient participants, for reconstructing the secret by utilizing self secret share of the recipient participant and l-1 secret shares of the other participants. The secret reconstructing procedure includes the following steps: (i) receiving over said public communication channel l-1 encoded secret shares from the l-1 participants, respectively; (ii) decoding each one of the l-1 encoded secret shares, thereby obtaining l-1 decoded secret shares; and (iii) reconstructing the secret from the l-1 decoded secret shares and from the self secret share of the recipient participant.
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