secret sharing

method for sharing a secret in a way that requires multiple parties to collaborate to recover it
class studies Q1386603
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secret sharing

Summary

secret sharing draws 70 Wikipedia views per month (studies category, ranking #58 of 264).[1]

Key Facts

  • secret sharing is credited with the discovery of Adi Shamir[2].
  • secret sharing is credited with the discovery of George Robert Blakley Jr.[3].
  • secret sharing's subclass of is recorded as cryptographic primitive[4].
  • secret sharing's subclass of is recorded as cryptographic data processing[5].
  • secret sharing's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1979-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • secret sharing's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02bxvb[7].
  • secret sharing's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Secret sharing[8].
  • secret sharing's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/secret-sharing[9].
  • secret sharing's Quora topic ID is recorded as Secret-Sharing[10].
  • secret sharing's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 3087436[11].
  • secret sharing's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C3087436[12].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Adi Shamir[2], a mathematician[13], b. 1952[14], of Israel[15], awarded the Israel Prize[16], specialised in informatics[17] and George Robert Blakley Jr.[3], a mathematician[18], 1932–2018[19], of United States[20], specialised in number theory[21].

Why It Matters

secret sharing draws 70 Wikipedia views per month (studies category, ranking #58 of 264).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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