splitting keys

David Picon Alvarez eleuteri@myrealbox.com
Fri Feb 21 01:18:02 2003


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Hi,

Is it likely that secret sharing will be ever incorporated in GnuPG? By
secret sharing I understand the following, but maybe I'm wrong:

There's a key divided into N fragments, of which M (where M<=N) of them are
necessary to utilice it. This would allow a group of people to share a key
which they can use only with a certain consensus. At least this is what I
understand by key splitting...

- --David.

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