IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar: "Secret Sharing: What is it and why should you care?", Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- IQUIST
- Location
- 190 Engineering Sciences Building, 1101 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
- Date
- Oct 2, 2024 11:00 - 11:50 am
- Speaker
- Sarah Hagen, Chitambar Group
- Contact
- Wolfgang Pfaff
- wpfaff@illinois.edu
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- 125
- Originating Calendar
- IQUIST Young Researchers Seminar
Secret Sharing: What is it and why should you care?
Abstract: Secret sharing is a fundamental task in cryptography. Its goal is to share a particular piece of information, the secret, among a group such that only authorized groups of parties can recover the secret while unauthorized groups learn no information. Every secret sharing scheme is equivalent to an error correcting code that can correct specific types of erasures. We review existing error correction results from the perspective of secret sharing. Finally, we introduce a new secret sharing variant and discuss preliminary examples.
I will also briefly speak about my experience writing for IQUIST and how you can get involved starting next semester!
Student Bio: Sarah Hagen is a 4th year physics graduate student researching theoretical quantum cryptography under Eric Chitambar.