X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/catacomb/blobdiff_plain/ea303d6c25ad89731319b1e704888d06f85a94b1..ee62fa1614e4f21271339577d45588a92a60502f:/README diff --git a/README b/README index daf861b..7662c49 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ Objectives 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. --- -[mdw] +-- [mdw] Local variables: