Slightly OT: SSSS tool

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 21:13:14 CET 2010


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Hello,
      A couple of days ago, in discussion "Storing password in keyring",
David suggested the usage of tools to split secrets, and used as example
the tool SSSS ( http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ ). Currently there is
a discussion about splitting a password in another list, and I mentioned
SSSS as a possible way to solve the problem, but there were questions
about if it has been reviewed by the crypto community, and if it can be
"broken". I have read the article at wikipedia that explains how (or
why) it works (and it seems to be unbreakable), but I can't tell if the
implementation is safe enough.

      I know this question is OT, but currently I don't know a better
place to ask it: have somebody took a look at the code of that
application? Does it seem to be safe?

      Best Regards
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