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Multikey crypto
Since I am relatively new to the field of encryption forgive me if this
is a FAQ.
Has anyone ever done anything with an encryption scheme that allows
multiple unlocking keys? What I'm thinking about is a way to encrypt
some data and then create multiple keys that will decrypt the data. I
want to be able to encrypt a document and then give multiple people
access to the document and be able to lock out a key and/or generate
new keys without having to redistribute keys to everybody that already
has one. I realize that this makes it easier to attack the encrypted
information since there are multiple keys to unlock the data but I
don't consider this a big problem. If someone wants to throw heavy duty
horsepower at the problem they will crack it eventually anyway.
Mike
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