Re: A simple secret sharing between 2 person
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Re: A simple secret sharing between 2 person

From: b <beshinica@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Jun 08 2005 - 13:39:06 CEST

Ok, I see. So, it's flawed. Thanks a lot for help

> Except it's not actually a valid secret sharing scheme since any one
> party can decrypt [hint: 2^64 is much smaller than 2^128] a message
> with some probability and how many of them will be valid 16-char
> strings? A simple dictionary matching algorithm could reject the vast
> majority of decrypts...
>
> There isn't a way to split it without growth.
>
> Tom
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:41:29 2005