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Re:Show HN: Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing by forty on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:24PM (#26257571)
It's not a great choice though. The idea of horcrux is that any piece is enough which is basically exactly the opposite of what shamir secret does ;) It was a much better choice for a script with the same name I used a while ago that would duplicate backups on several storage systems.

Anyway, who cares about the name, it's a pretty cool website :)

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Re:Show HN: Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing by 627467 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:36PM (#26258278)
Exactly (about it being the opposite of an "actual" horcrux). But this is not even the first (or the second) split-secret mechanism to make this same reverse analogy
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Re:Show HN: Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing by sidpatil on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:25AM (#26260271)
Not to mention that there are already two other similar projects with the same name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933983

https://github.com/kndyry/horcrux

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