Split private Key

[Clayton Haapala]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:12:39AM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> 
> Clayton Haapala wrote:
> 
> > Why not encrypt the Certificate key, prior to splitting it
> 
> Encrypt the public key?  Does not compute.
> 
I wrote a bit more than THAT -- I said to use a separate public key
to encrypt (protect) the Certificate key.  Beats using a bloody XOR.
Then, when they get together to merge their Certificate pieces, they
put them together and decrypt using the separate private key.
--
Clay