[93051] in Cypherpunks
Re: (eternity) mailing list and activity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (phelix@vallnet.com)
Mon Jan 12 01:23:22 1998
From: phelix@vallnet.com
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 05:52:02 GMT
Reply-To: phelix@vallnet.com
On 11 Jan 1998 18:48:24 -0600, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> wrote:
>Wei Dai suggested that documents should be secret split in a redundant
>fashion so that say 2 of 5 shares are required to reconstruct the
>document. If the shares are distributed across different servers,
>this ensures that one server does not directly hold the information.
What prevents the operator of such a server from being charged with
"conspiracy to provide child porn" or whatever? If he is holding a portion
of such contraband, isn't he as liable as if he was holding the whole
article(s)?
-- Phelix
