(Short) Intro and question

[Ivan Krstić]

Allen wrote:
> One of the questions that I have been raising is trust and how to ensure
> that that it is not misplaced or eroded over time. Which leads me to my
> question for the list: I can see easily how to do split key for 2 out of
> x for key recovery, but I can't seem to find a reference to the 3 out of
> x problem.

Read Shamir's original paper:
    http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~bchor/Shamir.html

and the Wikipedia page:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing

-- 
Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D

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