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Re: PGP messages readable by more than one person

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From: Marc VanHeyningen
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:33
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Thus said ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning):
>perhaps a more interesting (in the sense of puzzle solving) problem is
>how to extend pgp so that you can send a message that ALL of a group
>have to agree to read.  of course, it isn't that much harder than the
>previous puzzle, but it is fun.

An interesting generalization of the above is how to cryptographically
create a situation whereby any m people in a group of n (of course,
the problem is only hard when n > m > 1) must cooperate to read a
message.  I seem to recall having heard that it's possible, but I
don't remember the details.
-- 
Marc VanHeyningen    mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu    MIME & RIPEM accepted


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From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@whale.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: PGP messages readable by more than one person
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