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Re: secret-sharing code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Wed Mar 29 09:37:34 2000
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:25:51 +1000
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
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At 13:22 29/03/2000 +0930, Steve Bellovin wrote:
>Are there any freely-available secret-sharing packages around? Specifically,
>I need to be able to set up modestly complex policies to protect a sensitive
>signature key.
>
>While source code would be best, I'd also be interested in smart card-based
>products.
I use Hal Finney's "secsplit". Google found it in a couple of places; it
doesn't seem to have been updated since 1993. It doesn't do the more
complicated schemes, just straight (m, k) splitting.
regards,
Greg.
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