Publicly verifiable secret sharing

In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is publicly verifiable (PVSS) if it is a verifiable secret sharing scheme and if any party (not just the participants of the protocol) can verify the validity of the shares distributed by the dealer. In verifiable secret sharing (VSS) the object is to resist malicious players, such as (i) a dealer sending incorrect shares to some or all of the participants, and (ii) participants submitting incorrect shares during the reconstruction protocol, cf.

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