On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, R.A. Hettinga wrote:

hi,


I was going through the wikipedia example of shamir secret sharing which says it is information theoretically secure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
...

The scheme is defined over a finite field *not* over the integers. When Shamir's scheme is run over a finite field, it is information theoretically secure.

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