Description

A specification written in Hacspec for Shamir's secret sharing scheme over secp256k1's curve order. I made the following decisions to simplify the implementation:

• no tagged hashes in nonce generation
• didn't assert the user inputs
  • hacspec prevents this
• user can't provide any auxiliary randomness

API Details

• generate_shares
  • generates n shamir shares for the given shared secret
  • t of these shares are sufficent to reconstruct the shared secret

pub fn generate_shares(secret: SharedSecret, t: usize, n:usize) -> Seq<ShamirShare>

• recover_secret
  • reconstructs the secret from the given shares (atleast t needed)

pub fn recover_secret(shares: &Seq<ShamirShare>) -> SharedSecret

Build Instructions

To build & test:

cargo build
cargo test

To typecheck hacspec specification:

• install the typechecker (follow these instructions)
• there will be two different version of hacspec_lib compiled when you run cargo build
  • this is a known issue within the hacspec community (see this issue)
  • so, you need to manually delete one of the two versions (.remeta and .rlib files) before running the typechecker
  • you can find the binaries in target/debug/dep/ directory (named libhacspec_lib-****.rmeta)

cargo hacspec hacspec-sss