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Re: Looking for an N -out-of-M split algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Stiglic)
Wed Jul 16 16:16:01 2003
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From: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>
To: <Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:13:14 -0400
> Does anyone have any idea where I might learn about this algorithm - or
> indeed any algorithm which does the job.
Just as Perry mentioned, look into Shamir Secret Sharing.
There are also implementations of this, see for example
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/distrib/tontine.html
(I'm not certain if I ever used that one in particular, so I don't know if
it's good,
but I'll let you do the research...).
--Anton
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