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> How is someone losing their key a "technical problem"? The human half of the problem is the loss of the key; the technical half of the problem is being unabl
by woodruffw 11mo ago
> How is someone losing their key a "technical problem"?
The human half of the problem is the loss of the key; the technical half of the problem is being unable to decrypt the election results.
> The trustee responsible has resigned so why weaken security going forward?
I don't think there's a scenario in which a 2-of-3 threshold is a significant risk to IACR.
- themafia 11mo agoThere's physical loss and data loss as well. Key storage devices are not perfect. You even have to account for HSM failures. I believe the DNSSEC uses a 5 of 7 approach.