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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-3039</article-id>
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        <article-title>Combinatorial design theory for the development of threshold secret sharing schemes in cloud-based environments</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Wankhade</surname>
            <given-names>Nisha</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Information Technology, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 441110, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Gaurav</surname>
            <given-names>Amit</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>School of Engineering &amp; Technology, Noida International University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 203201, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Reddy</surname>
            <given-names>S. Srinivas</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Shamshabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, 501218, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Varshney</surname>
            <given-names>Neeraj</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Engineering &amp; Applications, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, 281406, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ernazarov</surname>
            <given-names>Mirzohid</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Information Technology and Exact Sciences, Termez University of Economics and Service, Termez, 190111, Uzbekistan</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Madaminov</surname>
            <given-names>Bekzod.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of General Professional Sciences, Mamun University, Khiva, Uzbekistan</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Lahane</surname>
            <given-names>Payal Sunil</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Artificial Intelligence &amp; Data science, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Bibwewadi, Pune, Maharashtra, 411037, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>10-B</issue>
      <fpage>4145</fpage>
      <lpage>4155</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>Cloud-based data management systems should have strong data handling mechanisms that discourage unauthorized access and provide effective data recovery. The issue that the present paper will address is to construct efficient threshold secret sharing schemes on the basis of the combinatorial design theory. This is aimed at developing a mathematically-based structure using Balanced Incomplete Block Designs (BIBD) and Finite Field-based polynomial interpolation to enhance security and scalability. The proposed model encodes secrets in combinatorial structures and this enables them to be shared with subjects in controlled manner and only authorized subsets having the power to recreate the secret. The use of algorithms is focused on the effective encoding algorithms and the reconstruction algorithms that have a reduced computational load. Experiments have demonstrated resistance to collusion attack and 21.6 percent more reconstruction than traditional schemes.</p>
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        <kwd>Data confidentiality</kwd>
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