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            interested in covering different sorts of cryptographic
            primitives and operations than in implementing standard
            protocols.  I'm more likely to add support for elliptic
-           curve-based public-key cryptography and secret-sharing
-           systems than supporting something like SSL or the PKCS suite
-           of standards.
+           curve-based public-key cryptography and threshold
+           cryptography systems than supporting something like SSL or
+           the PKCS suite of standards.
 
          * Portability.  Almost all of Catacomb assumes nothing more
            than plain old ANSI C, and should therefore work on any
@@ -186,10 +186,6 @@ Future directions
            management for public-key systems.  This needs a lot of
            thought, however.
 
-         * Secret-sharing systems.  Take a secret, and give n people a
-           `share' in it, so that any k <= n of them can recover the
-           secret, but fewer than k have no hope.
-
          * Arithmetic in finite fields other than the prime-order
            fields constructed by integer multiplication with a prime
            modulus.  Interesting variants of Diffie-Hellman and other
@@ -202,8 +198,7 @@ Future directions
        people have suggestions then I'll consider them fairly, although
        they shouldn't conflict with my main objectives.
 
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