Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme

an implementation of Shamir's secret sharing scheme for UNIX/linux machines
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Publisher Name:
  • B. Poettering
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  • Operating Systems:
  • Linux
  • File Size:
  • 17KB

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Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme Description

Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (ssss for short) is an implementation of Shamir's secret sharing scheme for UNIX/linux machines. It is free software, the code is licensed under the GNU GPL. ssss does both: the generation of shares for a known secret and the Reconstruction of a secret using user provided shares. The software was written in 2006 by B. Poettering, it links against the GNU libgmp multiprecision Library (version 4.1.4 works well) and requires the /dev/random Entropy source.


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