| Name : ssss
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| Version : 0.5
| Vendor : Dag Apt Repository, http://dag_wieers_com/apt/
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| Release : 1.el4.rf
| Date : 2011-01-26 18:36:07
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| Group : Applications/System
| Source RPM : ssss-0.5-1.el4.rf.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.04 MB
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| Packager : Steve Huff < shuff_vecna_org>
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| Summary : Shamir\'s Secret Sharing Scheme
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Description :
ssss is an implementation of Shamir\'s secret sharing scheme for UNIX/linux
machines. It is free software, the code is licensed under the GNU GPL. ssss
does both: the generation of shares for a known secret and the reconstruction
of a secret using user provided shares.
In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is a method for distributing a secret
amongst a group of participants, each of which is allocated a share of the
secret. The secret can only be reconstructed when the shares are combined
together; individual shares are of no use on their own.
More formally, in a secret sharing scheme there is one dealer and n players.
The dealer gives a secret to the players, but only when specific conditions are
fulfilled. The dealer accomplishes this by giving each player a share in such a
way that any group of t (for threshold) or more players can together
reconstruct the secret but no group of less than t players can. Such a system
is called a (t,n)-threshold scheme.
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RPM found in directory: /vol/rzm3/linux-dag/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS |
