Matt Corallo [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2018-01-18 📝 Original message:Or make it a part of your ...
📅 Original date posted:2018-01-18
📝 Original message:Or make it a part of your secret-split logic... Gotta love how fast GF(2^8) is:
https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/shamirs/blob/master/main.c#L57
On January 17, 2018 3:31:44 PM UTC, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>If the generalization isn't obvious, it might be helpful to make a
>little test utility that tries all possible one byte messages with all
>possible share values using the GF(256) sharing scheme proposed in the
>draft-- in this case information theory is why we can know SSS (and
>similar) have (within their limited scope) _perfect_ security, rather
>than it being a reason to speculate that they might not turn out to be
>secure at all. (or, instead of a test utility just work through some
>examples on paper in a small field).
>
📝 Original message:Or make it a part of your secret-split logic... Gotta love how fast GF(2^8) is:
https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/shamirs/blob/master/main.c#L57
On January 17, 2018 3:31:44 PM UTC, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>If the generalization isn't obvious, it might be helpful to make a
>little test utility that tries all possible one byte messages with all
>possible share values using the GF(256) sharing scheme proposed in the
>draft-- in this case information theory is why we can know SSS (and
>similar) have (within their limited scope) _perfect_ security, rather
>than it being a reason to speculate that they might not turn out to be
>secure at all. (or, instead of a test utility just work through some
>examples on paper in a small field).
>