IACR News item: 20 September 2012
Maura B. Paterson, Douglas R. Stinson
ePrint Report
We give easy proofs of some recent results concerning threshold gaps in ramp schemes. We then give a simplified and unified treatment of construction methods for ramp schemes using error-correcting codes. Finally, as an immediate consequence of these results, we provide a new explicit bound on the the minimum length of a code having a specified distance and dual distance.
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