"Charles Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Is anyone aware of a commercial product that implements secret sharing? If >so, can I get a pointer to some product literature?
It's available as part of other products (e.g. nCipher do it for keying their HSMs), but I don't know of any product that just does... secret sharing. What would be the user interface for such an application? What would be the target audience? (I mean a real target audience, not some hypothesised scenario). (This is actually a serious question. I talked with some crypto guys a few years ago about doing a standard for secret sharing, but to do that we had to come up with some general usage model for it rather than just one particular application-specific solution, and couldn't). Besides that, user demand for it was practically nonexistent... no, it was completely nonexistent, apart from a few highly specialised custom uses we couldn't even find someone to use as a guinea pig for testing, and the existing specialised users already had specialised solutions of their own for handling it. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
