Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > I don't think there is any basis to the claims that Cleversafe makes > that their erasure-coding ("Information Dispersal")-based system is > fundamentally safer, e.g. these claims from [3]: "a malicious party > cannot recreate data from a slice, or two, or three, no matter what the > advances in processing power." ... "Maybe encryption alone is 'good > enough' in some cases now - but Dispersal is 'good always' and > represents the future."
Surely this is fundamental to threshold secret sharing - until you reach the threshold, you have not reduced the cost of an attack? -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.links.org/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com