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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by sdinsn on Sunday July 05, 2020 @09:37PM (#23743856)
Similar to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

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Re:Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve? by nightcracker on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:50AM (#23746894)
Shamir's Secret Sharing is roughly equivalent to Reed-Solomon erasure coding, using the same idea.

The fountain codes I'm interested in are built from the perspective of inverting boolean matrices, and XOR'ing the right blocks together.

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