A verifiable secret sharing scheme with combiner verification and cheater identification

•Participant can identify whether the combiner from which shares submission requests are coming, is valid or not.•A combiner can also detect whether any cheating occur while receiving shares from the participants.•Participant do not get the exact share and ID. Thus it is impossible to retrieve the secret by k participants, accumulating their shares beyond the knowledge of the combiner.•The security analysis of the proposed method against different security threats proves its resistance against those threats.