PROVIDING OWNERS WITH INFORMATION

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
ORIGIN	Wisconsin Public Service Corporation	700 N. Adams Street P.O. Box 19001 Green Bay WI 534079001	Providing Home Owners with Information and Techniques on Energy Savings for Homes, Conservation Techniques and Innovative Ideas Concerned with Alternative Energy Systems;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

An n person secret sharing solution computes n unique keys to be distributed to the secret owners along with an exponentiated version of the secret. The custodian performs an exponent/modulo operation each time one of the keys is received from one of the secret owners. Alternatively, n+1 keys are created by the custodian, and the custodian retains one key after distributing the remaining n keys to the secret owners. After the custodian has received and processed the n keys from the secret owners, he performs an exponent/modulo operation using his own retained key. According to another aspect, a k out of n secret sharing solution involves computing and storing a database having an entry for each unique combination of k keys that could be returned from among the n keys. After k keys have been received, the custodian looks up in the database the entry corresponding to the particular unique combination of secret owners who returned keys. The custodian performs another exponent/modulo operation using the entry retrieved from the database in order to reconstruct the original secret. According to an embodiment, the custodian computes n+1 keys, distributes n of the keys to the secret owners, and keeps one of the keys for himself. The custodian retrieves his own key and performs a final exponent/modulo operation in order to reconstruct the original secret. According to another aspect, a k out of n secret sharing solution involves encrypting the original secret before applying any conventional k out of n secret sharing solution.