Re: Re: Secret sharing in “Protecting Secret Keys with Personal Entropy”

From: kg <kristiag+news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:34:58 +0000 (UTC)

Maaartin G <grajcar1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just wondered why people like Bruce Schneier bother with describing
such a workaround (simple but quite lengthy) instead of doing it the
easy way.

In this case, the exact shape of the secret sharing scheme isn't
actually interesting.

Sometimes, once you have a reasonable solution to a not very interesting
part of the puzzle, you don't bother looking for a better one.

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kg
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