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Secret Sharing with Publicly Verifiable Deletion

Authors:
Jonathan Katz , Google
Benjamin Sela , University of Maryland
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Conference: EUROCRYPT 2025
Abstract: Certified deletion, an inherently quantum capability, allows a party holding a quantum state to prove that they have deleted the information contained in that state. Bartusek and Raizes (Crypto 2024) recently studied certified deletion in the context of secret sharing schemes, and showed constructions with privately verifiable proofs of deletion that can be verified only by the dealer who generated the shares. We give two constructions of secret sharing schemes with publicly verifiable certified deletion. Our first construction is based on the post-quantum security of the LWE problem, and each share requires a number of qubits that is linear in the size of an underlying classical secret sharing scheme for the same set of authorized parties. Our second construction is based on a more general assumption - the existence of post-quantum one-way functions - but requires an asymptotically larger number of qubits relative to the share size of the underlying classical scheme.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{eurocrypt-2025-35073,
  title={Secret Sharing with Publicly Verifiable Deletion},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Jonathan Katz and Benjamin Sela},
  year=2025
}