On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Jonathan Cooper wrote:
I could write a procmail recipe and a script in about an hour to automatically secret-share-split and redistribute the incoming submission.
I'll wager most of us could. Question: whom would you redistribute it _TO_? This seems to be the stumbling block - who is willing to store the data on their machine or net account?
Why, other data haven operators, of course. [ Insert 500 messages about anonymous payment systems, FirstVirtual vs DigiCash, remailers, "data haven" guilds, etc. ] [ ... ]
How would you handle retrieval of the data?
Details, details. Just off the top of my head: an encrypted database that logs where the pieces were split and sent to. When the original data haven recieves a request for the file, it sends out requests to the other data havens, and reassembles the file, and shoots it out again to the original owner. Michael --- Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics Philadelphia, PA PGP Key ID FC031321 Print: 9B DB 9A B0 1B 0D 56 DA 61 6A 57 AD B2 4C 7B AF "Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut" -- Baudelaire * Skotoseme