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by carussell 2981 days ago
You could do secret splitting:

http://www.moserware.com/2011/11/life-death-and-splitting-se...

It's vulnerable in that whichever threshold N that you choose allows for N participants to conspire to publish ahead of time, or M - N to conspire not to publish after the fact.

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interesting. i hadn't seen this although I implemented something effectively the same, except that all keys (which could be any number ≥ 2) be combined to reveal the secret (or any information about it).