A PROBABILITY MODEL FOR RECONSTRUCTION SECRET SHARING UNDER THE INTERNET ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Computer and communications world began a new era with the birth of Internet technologies. The use of Internet for various business applicaitons and resource sharing has accelerated in recent years. Owing to such developement, Internet security has become a very important issue. In some applications, an important message may be dividend into pieces and be allocated at several different sites over the Internet for security access concern. For example, an important map that can be used to give a military order or command. To access such an important message, one must reconstruct the dividend pieces from different locations. In this paper, we present a novel probability model for reconstructing secret sharing and an evaluation algorithm to measure the probability of secret sharing constructtion. Also, how to assign the dividend shares into different sites over the Internet is studied.