ryancdotorg/threshcrypt
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A password-based implementation of threshold encryption
5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2012-08-15 · latest 2016-05-16
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Some software using this algorithm: http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/libgfshare https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt (uses libgfshare, written by me - handles large files by splitting a key into shares and encrypting them with…
comment by ryan-c · 2016-05-16 · in Shamir's Secret Sharing -
…for "usable by everyone". It would be nice if there were something like this that had a good UI. 1. https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt
comment by ryan-c · 2014-11-20 · in The Secret Life of Passwords -
…via pbkdf2 to somewhat mitigate lousy passwords) and bundles everything into a single file. https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt
comment by ryan-c · 2014-07-03 · in Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (2005) -
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'.
comment by ryan-c · 2012-11-04 · in Sharing secrets and distributing passwords -
That's one of one of the main use cases I had in mind when I wrote this: https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt - you encrypt a file using N passwords and require that at least M passwords be presented in order to decrypt. At the…
comment by ryan-c · 2012-08-15 · in Show HN: Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch