- Name: ssss
- Version: 0.5
- Release: 2.mga3
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- Group: File tools
- License: GPLv2+
- Url: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
- Summary: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
- Architecture: i586
- Size: 19369
- Distribution: Mageia
- Vendor: Mageia.Org
- Packager: umeabot <umeabot>
Description:
ssss is an implementation of Shamir's secret sharing scheme for UNIX/linux
machines.
Citing from the Wikipedia article about Secret Sharing:
In cryptography, a secret sharing scheme is a method for distributing
a secret amongst a group of participants, each of which is allocated
a share of the secret. The secret can only be reconstructed when the
shares are combined together; individual shares are of no use on their
own.
More formally, in a secret sharing scheme there is one dealer and n
players. The dealer gives a secret to the players, but only when specific
conditions are fulfilled. The dealer accomplishes this by giving each
player a share in such a way that any group of t (for threshold) or
more players can together reconstruct the secret but no group of less
than t players can. Such a system is called a (t,n)-threshold scheme.
ssss does both: the generation of shares for a known secret and the
reconstruction of a secret using user provided shares.
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