Ecological and genetic factors that govern the occurrence and persistence of anthrax reservoirs in the environment are obscure. A central tenet, based on limited and often conflicting studies, has long held that growing or vegetative forms of Bacillus anthracis survive poorly outside the mammalian host and must sporulate to survive in the environment. Here, we present evidence of a more dynamic...

A , (m  ) n threshold secret sharing scheme is a method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants. In a , (m  ) n threshold secret sharing scheme any m participants recover the secret, but no ) 1 (  m participants can [6]. Each of participants is allocated a share of the secret. The secret can only be reconstructed when the shares are combined together [2]. In this paper, we ...

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 [6,10] 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 ...

The unique characteristics and constraints of MANET have made the traditional approach to security inadequate. With this view in mind decentralized group key management is taken into consideration. A novel structure of the node is proposed and each entity holds a secret share SSi of each node in cluster is controlled by its cluster head, the policy enforcer decides for the working of intelligen...