How to reconstruct (anonymously) a secret cellular automaton
This paper develops a new threshold secret sharing scheme for cellular automata (CA) that enables anonymous reconstruction of the secret CA rules, improving upon previous characterizations using Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares (MOLS).
Abstract
More Like ThisWe consider threshold secret sharing schemes based on cellular automata (CA) that allows for anonymous reconstruction, meaning that the secret can be recovered only as a function of the shares, without knowing the participants' identities. To this end, we revisit the basic characterization of $(2,n)$ threshold schemes based on CA in terms of Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares (MOLS), and redefine the secret space as the MOLS family itself, showing that the new resulting scheme enables anonymous reconstruction of secret CA rules. Finally, we discuss the trade-off between the number of secret CA that can be shared and the computational complexity of the recovery phase.