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Reconstruct the key

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Tue, 26 November 2013 01:56 UTC

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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:53:57 -0800
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
From: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
Subject: Reconstruct the key
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Hi Michael,
At 17:24 25-11-2013, Michael Richardson wrote:
>and my understanding from careful reading of the site that any three Crypto
>Officers are enough to reconstruct the key, it seems that a US NSL would not
>suffice.

This is an individual opinion.  Key reconstruction would require more 
than three
Key Share Holders.

>There are not three US people in any category, but I did not read how the key
>was split.  If two Crypto Officers and a backup crypto officer cound as
>three, then I'm wrong: a US NSL takes it.

Those roles do not have the ability to do that.

>I was also assuming that CO's for east coast do not also have west coast
>keys, but I may be wrong here.

The above is ambiguous.

Sorry for being brief.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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