Re: lockable trapdoor one-way function
From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 11/27/03
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:09:46 GMT
"Simon Johnson" <Ckwop@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I've a pretty good idea of one way to do it, but it's a whole lot of
work to
> > put the idea into practice, analyse it, prove it secure and so on. I was
> > hoping someone else had already done the work.
>
> You can't do it in the math alone. Once you know something, you can't
> unknow it mathematically. You need some kind of physical destruction
> of that information.
Hence the secret sharing. However, in my original reply I said you make the
secret together. E.g. no one party ever has the entire secret.
Tom
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