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NuCypher KMS: Decentralized key management system

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Re: NuCypher KMS: Decentralized key management system

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What is key re-encryption exactly?

It basically allows some untrusted party to convert ciphertext which you can decrypt to a ciphertext which someone you granted access to can decrypt.

It's like "instead of decrypting my data and encrypting with Bob's public key I want Charlie to do this operation without showing my secrets to Charlie". Charlie is a miner in our case :-)