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This feels like Shamir's secret sharing with a pinky promise that "we won't decrypt things earlier", am I missing something?
by bialpio 3y ago
This feels like Shamir's secret sharing with a pinky promise that "we won't decrypt things earlier", am I missing something?
- aarreedd 3y agoYes, essentially. However, the 'pinky-promisers' are large, well-funded, geographically distributed organizations that have strong incentives, both in terms of reputation and operations, to keep their promise
- bialpio 3y agoGotcha, at first I was expecting something that tried to rely on some kind of physical limitation or a property that the passage of time has.