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Saw this posted over here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/163355

sounds like a really fun concept that should be shared here too :D

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I always thought this was such a cool concept when I was administrating a Hashicorp Vault server. I made 7 fragments for 7 keyholders, and required that 4 or 5 of them (can't remember) enter their fragments to unlock the Vault server.

[–] NorthMoriaBestMoria@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DaGeek247@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

From the git repo;

Q) How does this work?
A) This uses the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme to break an encryption key into parts that can be recombined to create the original key, but only requiring a certain threshold to do so. I've adapted Hashicorp's implementation from their vault repo