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Re:You can now make horcruxes out of your confidential files by todotask on Thursday January 02, 2020 @10:41AM (#21936264)
Is your idea of reed-solomon encoding store in a multiple device?
Re:You can now make horcruxes out of your confidential files by jacobr1 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @12:25PM (#21937426)
I think the idea is that you should be able to reconstruct the data fully from any X of Y configured shards of the data (and keys). You can do this with multi-signature keys and reed-solomon codes for the data. There may be some smart way to combine the two that exists. Anybody know of an algorithm that would accomplish this? I vaguely remember reading a paper using Goppa codes that worked likes this, but google-fu is failing this morning.
Re:You can now make horcruxes out of your confidential files by red0point on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:16PM (#21942000)
Just use regular Reed-Solomon for the data and Shamir's Secret Sharing for the key (an implementation is for example http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/).

If you choose the same parameters for both algorithms, you can freely assign any key with any data shard and store those.