[Cryptography] Secret sharing for family members
Francis Pouatcha
Francis.Pouatcha at adorsys.com
Tue Oct 20 12:39:27 EDT 2020
Confidentiality - can anyone read the data before they should?
Integrity - can the data be modified without detection?
Availability - could we lose the data?
I wouldn't rely on any kind of solid enough cryptographic algorithm or durable enough storage. Time is the enemy of all these properties. Adequate solution needs a procedure with a lot of rotation of everything, starting with the secret itself, crypto keys, storage, data, trusted people, transparency logs.
[orcmid]
Elaborate treatment of Shamir secrets deleted.
So what happened to the distribution of separate pieces of a Benjamin (or some pieces of a dissected puzzle) that it takes a minimum of m of n people to show their parts and confirm that they fit together? Someone trusted has to hold the treasure, unless there is a very fancy lock 😊. Aren’t we over-thinking this problem?
A Benjamin Secret shall be
* either under the control of his delegated custodian (Attorney, Notary).
* or materializable by another quorum (loop). If there are 5 siblings, the Bejamin part could be reshared to a (4,3 secret sharing scheme)
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