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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
James P. Schneider, Raleigh, NC (US);
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/14 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/14 (2013.01); H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0894 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system distributes shares of a secret among cooperating entities using linear interpolation. In one embodiment, a linear equation is formed using the secret and random elements. The linear equation represents a K-dimensional hyperplane, where K is the number of shares to reconstruct the secret. Shares of the secrets are created, with each share corresponding to a point on the secret hyperplane. The shares are then distributed to cooperating entities for secret sharing.