Rafael Cividanes writes:
Hi,
I'm looking for a secure implementation of Shamir Secret Sharing
algorithm in OpenSSL Project. I coudn't find anything in the page
(www.openssl.org).
Is there any free implementation like that of Shamir's algorithm?
We did talk about it a few years ago. However, when I thought about it, I
was disturbed by the fact that you have to put together the secret, THEN
decipher whatever you need to decipher. In a distributed or otherwise
potentially hostile environment, it means that someone will get the secret,
and then, the sharing scheme is moot.
There was some further talk about a scheme where the message could be
partially deciphered with each secret share. I don't remember all the
details, and the documents I had disappeared in a disk crash (yeah, I'm much
better at keeping backups these days :-)).
Anyway, that's how far we got...
Cheers,
Richard
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