From: David Vincenzetti <vince@cryptonet.it>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 21:08:18 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: holographic remailing & the scientologists (fwd)
Message-ID: <199605280855.KAA23960@relay.cryptonet.it>
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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 <weidai@eskimo.com>
>  To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
>  cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
>  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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