Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Breaking the Circuit-Size Barrier in Secret Sharing

We will describe a recently discovered connection between private information retrieval and secret sharing, and a new secret-sharing scheme for general access structures that breaks a long-conjectured exponential barrier.

Based on joint work with Tianren Liu and Hoeteck Wee.

Date & Time

October 15, 2018 | 11:15am – 12:15pm

Location

Simonyi Hall 101

Speakers

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Affiliation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology