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So a lot of these comments seem to be criticisms of potential vulnerabilities (which is par for hacker news really). I'm curious if there are better alternativ
by tshannon 9y ago
So a lot of these comments seem to be criticisms of potential vulnerabilities (which is par for hacker news really). I'm curious if there are better alternatives out there that aren't vulnerable to the same issues, like a single point of failure or attack?
- carussell 9y agoYou could do secret splitting: http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-secrets.html http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-se... It's vulnerable in that whichever threshold N that you choose allows for N participants to conspire to publish ahead of time, or M - N to conspire not to publish after the fact.
- alanh 9y agointeresting. i hadn't seen this although I implemented something effectively the same, except that all keys (which could be any number ≥ 2) be combined to reveal the secret (or any information about it).