CVS commit: pkgsrc/security/ssss

["Alistair G. Crooks" <agc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   agc
Date:           Sun Aug  9 05:52:36 UTC 2009

Update of /cvsroot/pkgsrc/security/ssss
In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv25168

Log Message:
Initial import of security/ssss-0.5 into the packages collection.

Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (SSSS) is an implementation of a
threshold scheme for sharing a secret between third parties, and
requiring a threshold of those parties to collaborate to reveal the
secret.

Taken from the Wikipedia article about Secret Sharing:

        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.

Shamir's scheme is provable secure:  in a (t,n) scheme one can prove
that it makes no difference whether an attacker has t-1 valid shares
at his disposal or none at all; as long as he has less than t shares,
there is no better option than guessing to find out the secret.

Status:

Vendor Tag:     TNF
Release Tags:   pkgsrc-base
                
N pkgsrc/security/ssss/DESCR
N pkgsrc/security/ssss/distinfo
N pkgsrc/security/ssss/Makefile
N pkgsrc/security/ssss/PLIST
N pkgsrc/security/ssss/patches/patch-aa

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