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* Package name : libgfshare Version : 1.0.2+bzr20070822 Upstream Author : Daniel Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/libgfshare * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : library and utilities for multi-way secret sharing This library implements Shamir's method for secret sharing, which can be used to split a secret (like a GPG secret key) into multiple parts, so that at least some number of those parts are needed to recover the original file, but any smaller combination of parts is useless to an attacker. . For instance, you might split a GPG key using a 3-of-5 share and put one share on each of three computers, and two shares on a USB memory stick; then you can use the GPG key on any of those three computers using the memory stick, but if the memory stick is lost, you can recover the key by bringing the three computers together. As well as a set of library packages, I intend to package the gfsplit and gfcombine command-line utilities as a binary package gfshare-utils. I'm in contact with the upstream author, and have asked him to release current bzr as 1.0.3, but until then I'm going to package what's in bzr. If anyone's interested: I have vague plans to write a FUSE filesystem that works like a cross between gfcombine and unionfs, and the upstream author has told me that Søren Hansen <http://warma.dk/blog/> has similar plans. Packaging in progress: http://bzr.debian.org/~smcv-guest/bzr/libgfshare -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: OpenPGP key: http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2003/contact/ or pgp.net iD8DBQFHPBlFWSc8zVUw7HYRAn3OAKDi2iX/nIW7bRmgkci/J2qVP7w49ACgslX7 iYrFI4psVNiHb81bVGjBbIY= =QFEv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
