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That would be a lot more difficult, if not impossible. My understanding of this thing is that it's sort of like a distributed key generator with part of the protocol being that the key is revealed after a particular point in time. If such a thing existed for the reverse, I suspect it would enable general purpose DRM by combining Timelock Encryption with the threshold timestamp mechanism so that some document would only be decryptable for a particular time period.


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