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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
            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
 
          * 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.
 
            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
          * 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.
 
        people have suggestions then I'll consider them fairly, although
        they shouldn't conflict with my main objectives.
 

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