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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by chedabob on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:32PM (#12945793)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing
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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by StavrosK on Monday November 14, 2016 @05:44AM (#12948863)
SSS doesn't look like it pertains to this discussion at all. How do you use this to store single digits securely?
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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by mnw21cam on Monday November 14, 2016 @06:47AM (#12949167)
If you have an method for requiring n out of m key parts to use the key, it is fairly easy to see how this can be used to require n out of m characters from a password. The only problem is that just a few characters doesn't have a large enough entropy to prevent the whole thing being brute forced very quickly.
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Re:AdultFriendFinder was hacked by StavrosK on Monday November 14, 2016 @09:41PM (#12955203)
> If you have an method for requiring n out of m key parts to use the key, it is fairly easy to see how this can be used to require n out of m characters from a password.

It doesn't sound very easy to me at all. Can you explain in more detail?

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