Theory and Application of Shamir Secret Sharing

Talk on Shamir Secret Sharing. This repository contains:

• Slides in reveal.js
• Demo API in sss-api written in Scala.
• Figures for the slides and supporting materials in figures
• Original paper How to Share a Secret by Adi Shamir in docs.

Slides

Open reveal.js/index.html in your browser. MathJax is now included in the repository because of the CDN transition. This makes the clone somewhat large.

Demo

sss-api is a demo API implemented in Scala. You can easily run the demo API if you have Scala and SBT installed. The instructions are in the README.

Figures

The graphs are generated with Gnuplot. There is a makefile that will build all of the Gnuplot scripts into PNG images. Just type make.

There are additional details on the mathematics in the tex directory. Build that into a PDF document by using the same incantation: make. You will, of course, need to have the dependent LaTeX tools installed. The PDF is in the docs directory.

Documents

See the docs directory for Adi Shamir's original November 1979 paper How to Share a Secret and some additional notes on the mathematics.