Abstract
We propose a new, lightweight (t; n) threshold secret shar- ing scheme that can be implemented using only XOR operations. Our scheme is based on an idea extracted from a patent application by Hewlett Packard that utilises error correction codes. Our scheme im- proves on the patent by requiring fewer randomly generated bits and by reducing the size of shares given to each player, thereby making the scheme ideal. We provide a security proof and e ciency analysis. We compare our scheme to existing schemes in the literature and show that our scheme is more e cient than other schemes, especially when t is large.