Two points make this solution unlikely to meet the goals the author is attempting to meet:<p>Those who are performing whatever <i>evil</i> acts of <i>information sharing</i> are disallowed by the counsel will use tools that do not have a counsel who can backdoor the system.<p>Attempting to solve the single point-of-failure backdoor by increasing the number of points by a modest amount still falls prey to making those individuals immediately attractive targets to those who wish to get at the plaintext.  Bear in mind it needn&#x27;t be a technical hack once someone holds keys.  It could be a social mechanism that exposes one or more of the counsel member&#x27;s keys via law of an oppressive government, or other coercion (blackmail, etc).