Round-Optimal and Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing
The round complexity of a VSS protocol is defined as the number of communication rounds in its sharing phase; reconstruction can always be done in a single round. There is no 1-round VSS with t > 1, regardless of the number of players. The bounds on perfect and efficient VSS protocols is given below.
Number of rounds | Security |
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1 | t = 1, n > 4 |
2 | n > 4t |
3 | n > 3t |
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