Linguistic protocols for secure information management and sharing

AbstractOne issue which is essential for the security of calculations and communication as well as the ability to guarantee data confidentiality is intelligent threshold division of strategic information that may later be passed on to a group of authorized users for reconstruction and shared use. Enabling such division of information acquires particular significance with regard to the management of important and confidential data by various national institutions, corporations or strategic (military) units. It seems that these techniques will become increasingly more important along with the growing number of their applications. The division of confidential information is inevitably related to the cryptographic algorithms of the division of secrets. Relying on these techniques, this paper will focus on two issues. The first is the expansion of the traditional techniques for the division of secrets and the development of the so-called linguistic threshold schemes, a new concept based on the traditional algorithms of the division of information which additionally introduces the stage of linguistic conversion of shared data using specially defined formal grammar. The other is the demonstration of how linguistic threshold schemes thus developed may be used to manage secret data in a variety of selected organizational structures