Sharing secrets and distributing passwords

Re:Sharing secrets and distributing passwords by cypherpunks01 on Saturday November 03, 2012 @04:41PM (#4737838)

The ssss unix utility does this, it's fun to use.

Docs at http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/, demo at http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/demo.html and it can be installed on ubuntu through the 'ssss' package, listed as ssss - Shamir's secret sharing scheme implementation.

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Re:Sharing secrets and distributing passwords by ryan-c on Sunday November 04, 2012 @12:41PM (#4740322)

Here's one I wrote that wraps the algorithm with passwords https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt and you can set the same password multiple times to accomplish the second 'advanced scenario'.

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