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This was already addressed by the research comminuty:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.105...

In other words, you can set things up so that no single authority can fail in a way that would cause the entire system to fail. You can have N authorities such that a minimum of K are needed to keep the system working.



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