On Secret Sharing with Newton’s Polynomial for Multi-Factor Authentication

Sergey Bezzateev, Vadim Davydov, Aleksandr Ometov

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Abstract

Security and access control aspects are becoming more and more essential to consider during the design of various systems and the tremendous growth of digitization. One of the related key building blocks in this regard is, essentially, the authentication process. Conventional schemes based on one or two authenticating factors can no longer provide the required levels of flexibility and pro-activity of the access procedures, thus, the concept of threshold-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) was introduced, in which some of the factors may be missing, but the access can still be granted. In turn, secret sharing is a crucial component of the MFA systems, with Shamir’s schema being the most widely known one historically and based on Lagrange interpolation polynomial. Interestingly, the older Newtonian approach to the same problem is almost left without attention. At the same time, it means that the coefficients of the existing secret polynomial do not need to be re-calculated while adding a new factor. Therefore, this paper investigates this known property of Newton’s interpolation formula, illustrating that, in specific MFA cases, the whole system may become more flexible and scalable, which is essential for future authentication systems.
Original languageEnglish
Article number34
JournalCryptography
Volume4
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2020
Publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

  • authentication
  • interpolation
  • Netwon’s polynomial
  • secret sharing

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