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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Confidentiality - can anyone read the data before they should?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Integrity - can the data be modified without detection?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Availability - could we lose the data?</span></p>
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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.</p>
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<b style=""><i style=""><span style="">[orcmid] </span></i></b></p>
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<b style=""><i style=""><span style="">Elaborate treatment of Shamir secrets deleted.</span></i></b></p>
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<span style="">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?<span style="">
</span>Someone trusted has to hold the treasure, unless there is a very fancy lock
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span style="">.<span style="">
</span>Aren’t we over-thinking this problem?</span></p>
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<li>either under the control of his delegated custodian (Attorney, Notary).</li><li>or materializable by another quorum (loop). If there are 5 siblings, the Bejamin part could be reshared to a (4,3 secret sharing scheme)</li></ul>
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