Verifiable Information Dispersal (or VID) has its roots in the work of Michael Rabin, 1989 which introduced the notion of Information Dispersal (ID). Adding verifiability (referred to as binding in this post) to obtain VIDs was done by Garay, Gennaro, Jutla, and Rabin, 1998 (called SSRI). Cachin and Tessaro, 2004...