On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, David Shaw wrote:
> Does anyone see a good use case (aside from the cool-trick factor) to
> using secret sharing in paperkey?
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1) weak passphrase on the key
2) no passphrase on the key
#2 may be more useful than it seems, if a key is very rarely used and
there's a risk that the passphrase will be lost/forgotten. this would
allow a way to distribute the secret to trusted parties and/or hidden
places without a passphrase on the key.
of course the real questions: is there a need for that? would anyone use
it?
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