THRESHOLD SIGNATURE SCHEME
- Introduction
Assuming there are 20 employees in a company, and if each employee has his or her own copy of the secret key then it is hard to assure on individuals due to compromise and machine break down. In the other hand, if there is a valid signature requires all 20 employees’ signature in the company then it will be very secure but not be easy to use. Therefore we can implement a scheme which requires only sign 5 or more out of 20 employees then it will be valid and that is exactly what a (5,20) threshold signature scheme tries to achieve. In addition, if a threat agent wants to compromise the system and obtain a message, he must compromise at least 5 people in the scheme and that is a harder thing to do compared to a traditional public scheme.
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