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Near-Optimal Non-malleable Codes and Leakage Resilient Secret Sharing Schemes

Series: Ph.D. (Engg.) Colloquium- ONLINE

Speaker: Ms. Sruthi SekarInt Ph.D student Dept. of C.S.A/Maths

Date/Time: Aug 09 14:00:00

Location: Microsoft Teams - ON-LINE

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Manjunath Krishnapur / Prof. Bhavana Kanukurthi

Abstract:
Non-malleable codes (NMCs) are coding schemes that help in protecting crypto-systems under tampering attacks, where the adversary tampers the device storing the secret and observes additional input-output behavior on the crypto-system. NMCs give a guarantee that such adversarial tampering of the encoding of the secret will lead to a tampered secret, which is either same as the original or completely independent of it, thus giving no additional information to the adversary. Leakage resilient secret sharing schemes help a party, called a dealer, to share his secret message amongst n parties in such a way that any t of these parties can combine their shares to recover the secret, but the secret remains hidden from an adversary corrupting < t parties to get their complete shares and additionally getting some bounded bits of leakage from the shares of the remaining parties.
For both these primitives, whether you store the non-malleable encoding of a message on some tamper-prone system or the parties store shares of the secret on a leakage-prone system, it is important to build schemes that output codewords/shares that are of optimal length and do not introduce too much redundancy into the codewords/shares. This is, in particular, captured by the rate of the schemes, which is the ratio of the message length to the codeword length/largest share length. The research goal of the thesis is to improve the state of art on rates of these schemes and get near-optimal/optimal rates.
In this talk, I will specifically focus on leakage resilient secret sharing schemes, describe the leakage model, and take you through the state of the art on their rates. Finally, I will present a recent construction of an optimal (constant) rate, leakage resilient secret sharing scheme in the so-called "joint and adaptive leakage model" where leakage queries can be made adaptively and jointly on multiple shares.
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