Advance sharing of quantum shares for classical secrets

Abstract: Secret sharing schemes for classical secrets can be classified into classical secret sharing schemes and quantum secret sharing schemes. Classical secret sharing has been known to be able to distribute some shares before a given secret. On the other hand, quantum mechanics extends the capabilities of secret sharing beyond those of classical secret sharing. We propose quantum secret sharing with the capabilities in designing of access structures more flexibly and realizing higher efficiency beyond those of classical secret sharing, that can distribute some shares before a given secret.