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Understanding Feldman's VSS with a simple example
I'm trying to understand Feldman's VSS Scheme. The basic idea of that scheme is that one uses Shamir secret sharing to share a secret and commitments of the coefficients of the polynomial to allow the ...
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Necessity for finite field arithmetic and the prime number p in Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
Shamir's original paper (PDF, 197kb) describing a threshold secret sharing scheme states:
To make this claim more precise, we use modular arithmetic instead of
real arithmetic. The set of ...
