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mc808 on July 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Access to...

"Michael S. Rogers, the director of the N.S.A., has proposed that technology companies be required to create a digital key that could unlock encrypted communications, but divide and secure the key into pieces so that no one person or government agency could use it alone."

Conveniently, Microsoft has a patent on just that. http://www.google.com/patents/US8891772

Michael S. Rogers should disclose any financial interest he may have in Microsoft. Or does he have something to hide?

michaelt on July 7, 2015 | [–]

Shamir's Secret Sharing was published in 1979. I would be surprised if Microsoft has a monopoly on it, given that patent was published in 2011.

higherpurpose on July 7, 2015 | | [–]

As well as one for a Skype backdoor:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2509604/data-privacy/mi...

Microsoft has some interesting project choices.

jackgavigan on July 7, 2015 | [–]

There are other ways of achieving this, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

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