bugtraq - Re: Joint encryption?

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:21:47 -0600
From: Gandalf The White <gandalf@...ital.net>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>,
	BugTraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Joint encryption?


Greetings and Salutations:

On 2/18/05 1:42 AM, "John Richard Moser" <nigelenki@...cast.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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