Patent ID: 7391865

Claim:
A method for securing data, comprising: a) encrypting a data set to provide an encrypted data set; b) generating two or more portions of data from the encrypted data set, wherein the generating comprises: splitting the data set into a number of data units, generating random or pseudo-random numbers, associating the random or pseudo-random numbers with at least two shares, associating the random or pseudo-random numbers with the data units, determining into which of the at least two shares to store each data unit according to the association of the random or pseudo-random numbers with the at least two shares and with the data units, and storing, using electronic storage, the data units and data indicative of at least a portion of the random or pseudo-random numbers in the at least two shares according to the determination; wherein the two or more portions of data each contain a randomized or pseudo-randomized distribution of the encrypted data set; and c) encrypting one or more of the portions of data from step b), whereby the data set is restorable from at least two of the two or more portions of data from step b), wherein restoring the data set comprises: decrypting the one or more portions of data from step c), reconstituting the encrypted data set by recombining data from the at least two of the two or more portions of data that was randomly or pseudo-randomly distributed in step b), and decrypting the encrypted data set into the data set.