Okay, sounds like the same idea, more or less. But I have an excuse for being 15 years too late: I was, uh, occupied at the time. Jim Bell On Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 9:11:31 AM PST, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote: On 1/29/19, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Vernam What if a challengable document, call it "A", is essentially split up into two: Take random (or pseudorandom) string, the length of document "A", call it "B", is XOR'd (exclusive-or'd) with "A", and the result we will call "C", of the same length as "A" and "B". Then, instead of having document "A" stored, store both "B" and "C", but maybe not on the same storage nodes. Basically, an implementation of a one-time pad. Or, instead of merely two strings, this could be expanded, in principle, to any number. The purpose of this is not to conceal the ultimate information, but to split up that information so that no one operator of a storage node contains enough information that arguably violates the law in the jurisdiction he happens to be at. WIll this work? Laws can be changed, but it would be difficult for a law to prohibit someone from possessing data that could conceivably be combined with some other information, somewhere, in order to regenerate some banned document "A".
There was something called OFFSystem ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/offsystem/