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Shamir's Secret Sharing[1] seems like it would be a good mechanism to encrypt decryption keys with - you can give a part of the key to several people, and requi
by anowlcalledjosh 10y ago
Shamir's Secret Sharing[1] seems like it would be a good mechanism to encrypt decryption keys with - you can give a part of the key to several people, and require that a certain number of them put their keys together to decrypt the information.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
- theoh 10y agoShamir's approach is just one option for secret sharing, so you are being overly specific. The Wikipedia page for secret sharing links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine Apparently the word has been use to refer to secret sharing. It hints at the problem with using this strategy to preserve access to encrypted data: all the sharing parties will die eventually.