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* Package name : ssss Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : B. Poettering * URL : http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ * License : GPL Description : Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme Citing from the homepage: <snip> ssss is an implementation of Shamir's secret sharing scheme for UNIX systems, tested only on linux machines until now. The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. ssss does both the generation of shares for a known secret and the reconstruction of a secret using user provided shares. The software was written in 2005 by B. Poettering, it links against the GNU libgmp multiprecision library (version 4.1.4 in my case) and requires the /dev/random entropy source. </snip> What is secret sharing? <snip> In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is a method for distributing a secret amongst a group of participants, each of which is allocated a share of the secret. The secret can only be reconstructed when the shares are combined together; individual shares are of no use on their own. More formally, in a secret sharing scheme there is one dealer and n players. The dealer gives a secret to the players, but only when specific conditions are fulfilled. The dealer accomplishes this by giving each player a share in such a way that any group of t (for threshold) or more players can together reconstruct the secret but no group of less than t players can. Such a system is called a (t,n)-threshold scheme. </snip> Thanks, Lennart -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
