Re: [saag] [Cfrg] draft-mcgrew-tss-01

David McGrew <mcgrew@cisco.com> Fri, 19 December 2008 17:55 UTC

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Correcting the SAAG address.

On Dec 19, 2008, at 9:39 AM, David McGrew wrote:

> Hello,
>
> this new draft describes a threshold secret sharing method. I  
> suggest that this draft be the basis for an RFC (informational would  
> be fine, I expect), and I welcome comments on it.
>
> best regards,
>
> David
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: IETF I-D Submission Tool <idsubmission@ietf.org>
>> Date: December 19, 2008 9:21:58 AM PST
>> To: mcgrew@cisco.com
>> Cc: praveenpatnala@yahoo.com
>> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-mcgrew-tss-01
>>
>>
>> A new version of I-D, draft-mcgrew-tss-01.txt has been successfuly  
>> submitted by David McGrew and posted to the IETF repository.
>>
>> Filename:	 draft-mcgrew-tss
>> Revision:	 01
>> Title:		 Threshold Secret Sharing
>> Creation_date:	 2008-12-19
>> WG ID:		 Independent Submission
>> Number_of_pages: 24
>>
>> Abstract:
>> Threshold secret sharing (TSS) provides a way to generate N shares
>> from a value, so that any M of those shares can be used to
>> reconstruct the original value, but any M-1 shares provide no
>> information about that value.  This method can provide shared access
>> control on key material and other secrets that must be strongly
>> protected.
>>
>> This note defines a threshold secret sharing method based on
>> polynomial interpolation in GF(256) and a format for the storage and
>> transmission of shares.  It also provides usage guidance, describes
>> how to test an implementation, and supplies test cases.
>>
>>
>>
>> The IETF Secretariat.
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