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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2020
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Steven Robert Hetzler, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/085 (2013.01); H04L 9/0825 (2013.01); H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); H04L 9/3263 (2013.01);
Abstract
A secret is sliced into a number of encrypted slices. The encrypted slices can be distributed amongst members of a group. The encrypted slices make recovery of the secret possible, but a group authority key is required for decryption. Thus, a number of slices are necessary, but still not sufficient, to recover the secret.