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md: Kill footnote on Repairable Threshold Schemes
What we have built is, in fact, a repairable threshold scheme, where other participants can help repair a share of a broken participant. (Our scheme is even better because a single peer suffices.) The footnote was a bit misleading in that it says that this could be possible without the seed. But without some secret, the participant can't authenticate to peers anymore, no matter what repairable threshold scheme will be used. (If we changed the scheme to store also the "self-share" in encrypted form in the recovery data, then we'd obtain a scheme where the seed is really only used for "authentication", namely decrypting the secshare.)
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