Optimizing Share Size in Efficient and Robust Secret Sharing Scheme for Big Data

Secret sharing scheme has been applied commonly in distributed storage for Big Data. It is a method for protecting outsourced data against data leakage and for securing key management systems. The secret is distributed among a group of participants where each participant holds a share of the secret. The secret can be only reconstructed when a sufficient number of shares are reconstituted. Although many secret sharing schemes have been proposed, they are still inefficient in terms of share size, communication cost and storage cost; and also lack robustness in terms of exact-share repair. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a new secret sharing scheme based on Slepian-Wolf coding. Our scheme can achieve an optimal share size utilizing…