Jon Wienke
At 10:55 PM 2/21/97 GMT, Adam Back wrote:
Here is a proposal for consideration for inclusion in the OpenPGP standard:
Great work, Adam! Pursuant to some of the recent rants on cypherpunks, I would like to see a proposal for a secret sharing mechanism that would allow the recovery of a storage-only key with m of n shares in the event that the passphrase to the storage key is unavailable, with the following attributes:
I think PGP Inc are considering secret sharing for later versions.
Perhaps it is too much for this iteration?
Secret sharing is nice, I agree, but can be complex too: what if it's
3 of 5, and one of the 5 leaves to join a competitor, can you
redistribute the share without creating a new key without losing
security? What new packets would be required, etc.
Adam
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Now officially an EAR violation...
Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0