Glossary¶
- Dealer
Entity which carries out the split operation
- Keypair generation
Operation which users and the receiver carry out to generate a key pair consisting of a private key.
- Parameter generation
Operation which is carried out once to generate system parameters, e.g. select mathematical groups and their generators.
- Private Key
Private part of a key pair. Element of the image group.
- Public Key
Public part of a key pair. Element of the pre-image group.
- PVSS
Publicly Verifiable Secret Splitting (or … Sharing).
- Receiver
An entity with a key pair which finally reconstructs the secret.
One of the shares; decrypted with the user’s private key and re-encrypted with the receiver’s public key.
- Secret
A random secret generated by the Secret Splitting operation.
- Secret Reconstruction
Operation which takes reencrypted shares, decrypts them with the receiver’s private key and outputs the secret.
- Secret Splitting
Operation which generated a random secret, splits it in multiple shares and encrypts those shares with the users’ public keys.
One part of the Secret, encrypted with a user’s public key.
Operation that a user carries out to decrypt a share and re-encrypt it with the receiver’s public key.
- User
An entity with a key pair which receives one of the encrypted shares and can re-encrypt it with the reveiver’s public key.