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Re: Joint encryption?


From: Gandalf The White <gandalf () digital net>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:21:47 -0600

Greetings and Salutations:

On 2/18/05 1:42 AM, "John Richard Moser" <nigelenki () comcast net> wrote:
In the case of (X,Y), [xxxx] and [yyyy] must provide enough data to
decrypt [zzzz]
In the case of (X,Z), [xxxx] and [zzzz] must provide enough data to
decrypt [yyyy]
In the case of (Y,Z), [yyyy] and [zzzz] must provide enough data to
decrypt [xxxx]

This sounds like encryption blended with RAID striping, or (as is used on
the binaries for the newsgroups now) the PAR files or PAR2 files.

Ken

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