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Re: holographic remailing & the scientologists (fwd)
A number of secret-sharing/splitting programs for Unix are available
at idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it/pub/crypt/code, ftp.dsi.unimi.it's new location
For instance, check idea.sec.dsi.unimi.it/pub/crypt/code/secshar.tar.gz
Ciao,
David
> Forwarded by Robert Hettinga
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> Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 15:20:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Wei Dai <[email protected]>
> To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <[email protected]>
> cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: holographic remailing & the scientologists
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> On Sat, 25 May 1996, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
>
> > frankly, I think this was a great idea that we could explore
> > some more. in a sense, it stores data "holographically" over
> > all kinds of different people's messages. imagine a system in which
> > the scientology documents are stored in people's signatures,
> > and someone writes software to go and recombine the documents
> > based on finding signatures "out there".
>
> This software already exists. Take a look at Disperse/Collect at
> http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai. Disperse splits a file into n base64
> encoded pieces where any k of them can be used to reconstruct the
> original. Collect will search through arbitrary collection of files (for
> example the entire news spool) for these pieces and automatically
> reconstruct everything that it finds.
>
> Wei Dai
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