Social Secret Sharing for Resource Management in Cloud

TL;DR

This paper reviews social secret sharing schemes, focusing on trust-based resource management in cloud computing, and discusses their construction, trust functions, and applications for maintaining secrets among cloud participants.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of social secret sharing schemes and their application in cloud resource management, highlighting trust functions and scheme construction.

Findings

Social secret sharing schemes effectively manage secrets in cloud environments.

Trust functions based on participant behavior enhance scheme reliability.

Application of social secret sharing improves resource management in clouds.

Abstract

We first explain the notion of secret sharing and also threshold schemes, which can be implemented with the Shamir's secret sharing. Subsequently, we review social secret sharing (NSG'10,NS'10) and its trust function. In a secret sharing scheme, a secret is shared among a group of players who can later recover the secret. We review the construction of a social secret sharing scheme and its application for resource management in cloud, as explained in NS'12. To clarify the social secret sharing scheme, we first review its trust function according to NL'06. In this scheme, a secret is maintained by assigning a trust value to each player based on his behavior, i.e., availability.