Blakley secret sharing scheme

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The Blakley secret sharing scheme is a threshold cryptographic method that hides a secret as the intersection point of multiple hyperplanes, requiring a minimum number of shares (hyperplanes) to reconstruct it.

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instanceOf information-theoretic secret sharing scheme
secret sharing scheme
threshold cryptographic scheme
advantage conceptually simple geometric interpretation
application distributed trust
key management
secure multiparty control of cryptographic keys
basedOn intersection of hyperplanes
category key management protocol
comparedWith Shamir secret sharing scheme NERFINISHED
condition t ≤ n
contemporaryWith Shamir secret sharing scheme NERFINISHED
differenceFromShamirScheme uses geometric hyperplanes instead of polynomial interpolation
disadvantage shares may leak geometric information about the secret space if not over large fields
field cryptography
information security
information theory NERFINISHED
generalizationOf geometric secret sharing
goal distribute trust among multiple participants
hasProperty information-theoretic security
linear secret sharing
perfect secret sharing
threshold property
influenced later geometric secret sharing schemes
introducedBy George R. Blakley NERFINISHED
introducedIn 1979
protects cryptographic keys
publishedIn Proceedings of the National Computer Conference NERFINISHED
reconstructionMethod compute unique point common to all given hyperplanes
reconstructionRequires intersection of at least t hyperplanes
representsSecretAs point in a vector space
representsSharesAs hyperplanes containing the secret point
requires minimum number of shares to reconstruct secret
requiresComputation solving systems of linear equations
requiresParameter number of participants n
threshold t
secret unique intersection point of hyperplanes
securityGuarantee fewer than t shares reveal no information about the secret
securityModel honest-but-curious adversaries for basic construction
share equation of a hyperplane
shareGenerationMethod choose random hyperplanes through secret point
shareSpace t-dimensional or higher-dimensional vector space
thresholdType (t,n)-threshold scheme NERFINISHED
titleOfOriginalPaper Safeguarding cryptographic keys
typicalImplementationDomain finite field GF(q) GENERATED
uses finite fields
geometric construction
hyperplanes
linear algebra

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Shamir secret sharing scheme relatedTo Blakley secret sharing scheme
Blakely hasAlternativeSpelling Blakley secret sharing scheme
this entity surface form: Blakley
William A. Blakley familyName Blakley secret sharing scheme
this entity surface form: Blakley