Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Stinson, Douglas"

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Contextualizing Alternative Models of Secret Sharing

Veitch, Shannon (University of Waterloo, 2022-08-17)

A secret sharing scheme is a means of distributing information to a set of players such that any authorized subset of players can recover a secret and any unauthorized subset does not learn any information about the secret. ...
Designing Efficient Algorithms for Combinatorial Repairable Threshold Schemes

Kacsmar, Bailey (University of Waterloo, 2018-10-23)

Repairable secret sharing schemes are secret sharing schemes where, without the original dealer who distributed the shares, the participants can combine information from their shares to perform a computation that ...
Generalizations of All-or-Nothing Transforms and their Application in Secure Distributed Storage

Nasr Esfahani, Navid (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)

An all-or-nothing transform is an invertible function that maps s inputs to s outputs such that, in the calculation of the inverse, the absence of only one output makes it impossible for an adversary to obtain any information ...
Integrity and Privacy of Large Data

Upadhyay, Jalaj (University of Waterloo, 2015-11-26)

There has been considerable recent interest in "cloud storage" wherein a user asks a server to store a large file. One issue is whether the user can verify that the server is actually storing the file, and typically a ...