Round-Optimal and Efficient

Verifiable Secret Sharing

Matthias Fitzi (Aarhus University)Juan Garay (Bell Labs)Shyamnath Gollakota (IIT Madras)C. Pandu Rangan (IIT Madras) Kannan Srinathan (IIIT Hyderabad)

Round-Optimal and Efficient VSS —TCC’06 2

Secret Sharing Protocols [Sha79,Bla79]

Two phases– Sharing phase– Reconstruction phase

Sharing Phase– D initially holds s and each player Pi finally holds some private

information vi.

Reconstruction Phase– Each player Pi reveals (some of) his private information v’i on which

a reconstruction function is applied to obtain s = Rec(v’1, v’2, …, v’n).

Set of players P = {P1 , P2, … , Pn}, dealer D (e.g., D = P1).

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Secret Sharing (cont’d)

Secret s Dealer

Less than t +1 players have no info’ about the secret

ReconstructionPhase

v1 v2 v3 vn

Sharing Phase

…

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Secret Sharing (cont’d)

Secret s Dealer

v1 v2 v3 vn

Sharing Phase

ReconstructionPhase

t +1 players can reconstruct the secret

Secret s Players are assumed to give their shares honestly

…

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Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) [CGMA85]

Extends secret sharing to the case of active corruptions (corrupted players, incl. Dealer, may not follow the protocol)Up to t corrupted playersAdaptive adversary

Reconstruction Phase– Each player Pi reveals (some of) his private information v’i

on which a reconstruction function is applied to obtain

s’ = Rec(v’1, v’2, …, v’n).

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VSS Requirements Privacy

– If D is honest, adversary has no Shannon information about s during the Sharing phase.

Correctness– If D is honest, the reconstructed value s’ = s.

Commitment– After Sharing phase, s’ is uniquely determined.

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Weak VSS (WSS) [RB89]

Privacy– If D is honest, adversary has no Shannon information about s

during the Sharing phase.

Correctness– If D is honest, the reconstructed value s’ = s.

Weak Commitment– After Sharing phase, s’ is uniquely determined such that Rec(v’1, v’2, …, v’n) {, s’}.

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Communication Model and Round Complexity

Synchronous, fully connected network of pair-wise secure channels + broadcast channel.

Round complexity: Number of communication rounds in the Sharing phase.

Efficiency: Total computation and communication polynomial in n and size of the secret.

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Prior (Relevant) Work

Perfect VSS possible iff n > 3t [BGW88, DDWY90] Round complexity of VSS [GIKR01]

– n > 4t: Efficient 2-round protocol– n > 3t: No 2-round protocol exists

Efficient 4-round protocol

Inefficient 3-round protocol

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Our Contributions

VSS: Efficient 3-round protocol for n > 3t WSS:

– Efficient 3-round protocol for n > 3t — round optimal – Efficient 1-round protocol for n > 4t

(1+ ) amortized-round VSS protocol for n > 3t

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Our Contributions

VSS: Efficient 3-round protocol for n > 3t WSS:

– Efficient 3-round protocol for n > 3t — round optimal – Efficient 1-round protocol for n > 4t

(1+ ) amortized-round VSS protocol for n > 3t

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS

Secret s

v1 v2 v3 vn

Dealer

Sharing Phase

ReconstructionPhase

…

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS

Secret s

v1 v2 v3 vn

ReconstructionPhase

Secret s’

…

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi sends to Pj a random pad rij.

Round 2: Pi broadcasts – aij = fi(j) + rij

– bij = gi(j) + rji

Pj broadcasts – aji = fj(i) + rji

– bji = gj(i) + rij

F(j,i) + r

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi sends to Pj a random pad rij.

Round 2: Pi broadcasts – aij = fi(j) + rij

– bij = gi(j) + rji

Round 3: For each aij ≠ bji

– Pi broadcasts fi(j)– Pj broadcasts gj(i)– D broadcasts F(j,i)

A player is said to be unhappy if his value does not match D’s value. If no. unhappy players > t, disqualify D.

Pj broadcasts – aji = fj(i) + rji

– bji = gj(i) + rij

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS — Reconstruction Phase Every happy player Pi broadcasts fi(x) and gi(y). Local computation:

– Every player constructs a consistency graph G over the set of happy players: there exists an edge between Pi, Pj G iff fi(j) = gj(i) and gi(j) = fj(i).

– Every player constructs a set CORE as follows:• Initially all nodes with degree at least n–t in G are in CORE.• Players in CORE consistent with less than n–t players in

CORE are removed.• Repeat until no more players can be removed from CORE.

Secret determined by the polynomial defined by any t+1 players from CORE. If |CORE| < n–t, the secret is .

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS — Proof SketchPrivacy: (D is honest)

– D distributes consistent information any pair of honest players publish same mutual padded values.

– Randomness of pads leads to indistinguishability of adversary’s view under different secrets.

Correctness: (D is honest) – All honest players (at least n–t) are happy no disqualification

of D in Sharing Phase.– They all end up in CORE, thus the secret reconstructed is s.

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3-Round (n/3)-WSS — Proof Sketch

Weak Commitment: – |CORE| < n – t: All honest players output . – |CORE| n – t: All players in CORE are consistent with a

polynomial fixed at the end of the Sharing Phase:• The n–2t honest happy players define a unique polynomial

F’(x,y) (at the end of Sharing Phase). • Every dishonest happy player in CORE is consistent with at

least n–t players in CORE, of which n–2t t+1 are honest every dishonest happy player in CORE is also consistent with F’(x,y).

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(n/3)-WSS Round Optimality

Based on impossibility of 3-round Weak Secure Multicast:

P = {P1 , P2, … , Pn}; D P holds input m; multicast set M P. – Privacy: If all players in M are honest, then adversary learns no

information about m.– Correctness: If D is honest, then all honest players in M output m. – Weak Agreement: Even if D is dishonest, all honest players in M

output a value in {m’, }.

r-round WSS r-round WSM

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Recall: 3-Round (n/3)-WSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi sends to Pj a random pad rij.

Round 2: Pi broadcasts – aij = fi(j) + rij

– bij = gi(j) + rji

Round 3: For each aij ≠ bji

– Pi broadcasts fi(j)– Pj broadcasts gj(i)– D broadcasts F(j,i)

A player is said to be unhappy if his value does not match D’s value. If no. unhappy players > t, disqualify D.

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi selects random ri and starts (n/3)-WSS on ri using FiW(x,y).

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi selects random ri and starts (n/3)-WSSi on ri using FiW(x,y).

Round 2: Pi broadcasts – aij = fi(j) + Fi

W(0,j) – bij = gi(j) + Fj

W(0,i)

– Concurrently, round 2 of (n/3)- WSSi takes place.

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi selects random ri and starts (n/3)-WSSi on ri using FiW(x,y).

Round 2: Pi broadcasts – aij = fi(j) + Fi

W(0,j) – bij = gi(j) + Fj

W(0,i)

Round 3: For each aij ≠ bji

– Pi broadcasts fi(j)– Pj broadcasts gj(i)– D broadcasts F(j,i)

– Concurrently, round 2 of (n/3)-WSSi takes place.

– Concurrently, round 3 of (n/3)-WSSi takes place.

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Sharing Phase Round 1:

– D selects a random bivariate polynomial F(x,y) of degree t in each variable, s.t. F(0,0) = s; sends F(x,i) = fi(x) and F(i,y) = gi(y) to Pi.

– Player Pi selects random ri and starts (n/3)-WSSi on ri using FiW(x,y).

Round 2: Pi broadcasts – aij = fi(j) + Fi

W(0,j) – bij = gi(j) + Fj

W(0,i)

Round 3: For each aij ≠ bji

– Pi broadcasts fi(j)– Pj broadcasts gj(i)– D broadcasts F(j,i)

A player is said to be unhappy if his value does not match D’s value. If no. unhappy players > t, disqualify D.

– Concurrently, round 2 of (n/3)-WSSi takes place.

– Concurrently, round 3 of (n/3)-WSSi takes place.

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Sharing Phase Local Computation:

– H = {happy players} – {players disqualified as WSS dealers} – If |H| < n–t, disqualify D and stop.

– For Pi H, if |H ∩ HiW| < n–t, remove Pi from H.

– Call the final set COREsh. If |COREsh| < n–t disqualify D and stop.

Properties of COREsh:– If D is honest, then COREsh contains all honest players

D is not disqualified during the Sharing phase.

– Every player in COREsh is consistent with n–t players in COREsh At least t+1 honest players in COREsh (defining a unique polynomial FH(x,y)).

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Reconstruction Phase

For each Pi COREsh, run Rec. phase of (n/3)-WSSi, concurrently.

Local computation:– CORErec := COREsh – CORErec := CORErec – {Pi : (n/3)-WSSi } – For each Pi CORErec compute

fi(j) = aij – FiW(0,j), 1≤ j ≤ n

If fi(x) not a t-degree polynomial, remove Pi from CORErec. – Obtain F’(x,y) by taking any t+1 polynomials fi(x) from CORErec; s’ := F’(0,0).

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3-Round (n/3)-VSS — Reconstruction Phase Properties of CORErec:

– At least n–2t ( t+1) honest players in COREsh unique t-degree polynomial FH(x,y).

– Dishonest Pi in CORErec:

WSSi succeeded;fi(j) lie on a t-degree polynomial f’i(x) ;F’i

W(x,y) is … consistent with t+1 honest players in CORErec

f’i(x) is consistent with FH(x,y).

Privacy: – The only difference with WSS protocol is the pads.– Prove that aij = fi(j) + Fi

W(0,j) does not reveal any info’ about fi(j).

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Amortized VSS Round Complexity Say, m k-round sequential VSS protocols (e.g., MPC) Using “deferred commitment,” m+2 total rounds

1+ O(1/m) amortized-round VSS protocol Initial phase: Dealer(s) share random values r1, r2,…, rm using the

given VSS protocol. Sharing Phase of jth VSS protocol:

– Broadcast correction term cj = sj – rj

Correction: (two ways)– In Reconstruction Phase each player computes sj = cj + rj.– At the end of Sharing Phase every player Pi computes

F*j(x,i) = Fj(x,i) + cj and F*

j(i,y) = Fj(i,y) + cj

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Summary

VSS: Efficient 3-round protocol for n > 3t WSS:

– Efficient 3-round protocol for n > 3t — round optimal – Efficient 1-round protocol for n > 4t

(1+ ) amortized-round VSS

Round-Optimal and Efficient

Verifiable Secret Sharing

Matthias Fitzi (Aarhus University)Juan Garay (Bell Labs)Shyamnath Gollakota (IIT Madras)C. Pandu Rangan (IIT Madras) Kannan Srinathan (IIIT Hyderabad)