News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on KeePass 2.37 has been released. Parent comment

Re:KeePass 2.37 has been released by polleroo on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:23AM (#15458133)
I came here hoping that the emergency sheet feature was an implementation of Shamir Secret Sharing. That would allow you to give a few sheets to trusted people, which they could combine to reveal your password.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:KeePass 2.37 has been released by StavrosK on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:33AM (#15458223)
You can do that with any number of utilities, though. Why does it have to be built in to KeePass?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:KeePass 2.37 has been released by polleroo on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:55AM (#15458413)
True, but they don't seem obviously inter-operable (at least to non-technical users).

The same parameters input into two online SSSS generators: 3 parts( 2 reqd), secret=hackernews yield different parts.

I want to make it easy to recover. Using the same tool to store the passwords and recover the keys simplifies the process.

[1]: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ [2]: https://iancoleman.github.io/shamir/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:KeePass 2.37 has been released by the_dege on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:46AM (#15458338)
That's awesome, I didn't know that algorithm!
[ Parent | on HN ]