A number of secret-sharing/splitting programs for Unix are available at idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it/pub/crypt/code, ftp.dsi.unimi.it's new location For instance, check idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it/pub/crypt/code/secshar.tar.gz Ciao, David
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----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 15:20:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com> To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com> cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: holographic remailing & the scientologists MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk
On Sat, 25 May 1996, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
frankly, I think this was a great idea that we could explore some more. in a sense, it stores data "holographically" over all kinds of different people's messages. imagine a system in which the scientology documents are stored in people's signatures, and someone writes software to go and recombine the documents based on finding signatures "out there".
This software already exists. Take a look at Disperse/Collect at http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai. Disperse splits a file into n base64 encoded pieces where any k of them can be used to reconstruct the original. Collect will search through arbitrary collection of files (for example the entire news spool) for these pieces and automatically reconstruct everything that it finds.
Wei Dai
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