I'm on vacation -- when I get back home, I'll post an M-of-N threshhold
secret
sharing scheme.
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From: "Bear Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> There are devices out there where you can protect something
> with n password, of which any m (m <= n) are
> required to unlock the encrypted "something".
>
> The second method involves some clever
> splitting of "something" and some kind of protection of each part.
My copy of "Applied Crypto
Vadim Fedukovich wrote:
>
> Papers/Authors/URLs list might be rather long. I do remember a paper
> of Boneh and Franklin on key-share generation and there was ITTS project
> with nice pointers to read futher. "Alternative" secret exponent
> calculation code suitable for key-share generator was he
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> There are devoices out there (I'm thinking of nCipher boxes, but I bet
> there are others) where you can protect something (in the nCipher
> case, the admin card) with n password, of which any m (m <= n) are
> required to unlock the enc
From: "Steven Reddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
smr> I don't know much about it myself, but I remember that Applied
smr> Cryptography deals with secret splitting and sharing.
Damn. Of course I left that book at work... I was hoping I wouldn't
need to go back to work any more this year...
--
Richar
I don't know much about it myself, but I remember that Applied Cryptography
deals with secret splitting and sharing.
Steven
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