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 wrote: On 1/29/19, jim bell <[1]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote: > [2]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 ... [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem [4]http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/ [5]https://sourceforge.net/projects/offsystem/ References 1. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Vernam 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem 4. http://offsystem.sourceforge.net/ 5. https://sourceforge.net/projects/offsystem/