Re: [cryptography] A secret sharing consensus protocol (or leader election protocol)

2013-07-19 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tony, The following article talks about using secret sharing and threshold signatures to make quorom decisions in a distributed system: L. Zhou and Z.J. Haas, Securing ad hoc networks. IEEE Network 13(6):24?30, November 1999.

[cryptography] A secret sharing consensus protocol (or leader election protocol)

2013-07-18 Thread Tony Arcieri
Has there been any work with combining Shamir-style secret sharing with consensus protocols like Paxos and Raft (or leader election protocols like Omega Meets Paxos)? The idea would be to have a network of n peers, who share a secret where t=2 shares are required to reassemble the original