Re: Passwords - in a Disaster Recovery Doc/Book

In comp.security.unix Ken Pizzini <ken_at_halcyon.com> wrote:
> As one simple example: if you want to give two people "half" of
> a password, such that neither half alone is sufficient to
> recover the password

simple would be to give the first erson the first word, the second person the second word. The only problem with this kind of secret sharing is, that both parties get some knowlegde about the secret, they have more options to crack it... but if the secret is long enough this doesnt matter much.

Of course real sharing is better, there is a tool for that online:

http://www.mindrot.org/code/secret-share.php3

Greetings
Bernd Received on Sat Mar 18 2000 - 20:19:41 CST