F-VSS — Verifiable secret sharing

F-VSS (Verifiable secret sharing) is part of Secret Sharing, Threshold Cryptography, MPC in the UC functionality encyclopedia. Status: a canonical, well-established UC functionality.

References:

• Abe and Fehr. Adaptively secure feldman VSS and applications to universally-composable threshold cryptography. In Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2004, pages 317–334, 2004.
• Gennaro, Rabin, and Rabin. Simplified VSS and fast-track multiparty computations with applications to threshold cryptography. In 17th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), pages 101–112, 1998.