Practical Post-Quantum Secure Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing and Applications

This repository contains the benchmarking code and experimental artifacts for the paper:

Practical Post-Quantum Secure Publicly Verifiable Secret Sharing and Applications

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📦 Prerequisites

Our schemes rely on the Lattice-IBE library, which requires the NTL and GMP libraries to be installed.

1. Install NTL and GMP

On macOS, you can install NTL via Homebrew:

brew install ntl

Make sure GMP is also installed (e.g., brew install gmp).

2. Adjust Include Paths

In the following files:

• rust-bindings-lattice-ibe/Lattice-IBE/Makefile
• rust-bindings-lattice-ibe/build.rs

update the include paths for ntl and gmp according to your system installation.
After these adjustments, you should be able to build the Lattice-IBE library successfully.

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▶️ Running Benchmarks

PVSS Benchmarks

Adjust n and t as required in test_share_basic in the following files:

• pqppvss/prot_pvss_hash_ibe.rs
• pqppvss/prot_pvss_pedcom_ibe.rs

Then to run the benchmarks:

cd pqppvss
cargo test --release --package pqppvss --lib -- prot_pvss_hash_ibe::tests::test_share_basic --exact --show-output

cd pqppvss
cargo test --release --package pqppvss --lib -- prot_pvss_pedcom_ibe::tests::test_share_basic --exact --show-output

Private Polling Benchmarks

To run the polling benchmarks:

cd private-polling/rust/private_polling/
cargo bench -- --nocapture

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📖 Notes

• All benchmarks are run in release mode to ensure optimized performance results.
• Please ensure your Rust toolchain is up to date (rustup update).
• Results may vary depending on your hardware and system configuration.