Shamir's Secret Sharing
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Shamir's Secret Sharing
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#2This is one of the most elegant things, ever.
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#3Vault(https://www.vaultproject.io/) and Phaistos KMS (https://github.com/phaistos-networks/KMS) both use SSD for sealing/unsealing, where a master key is created, 'divided' into multiple keys and a minimum number of such keys are required to unseal the service.
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#5This is one of the most elegant things, ever.
Polynomials are special
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#6It's amazing how this is a practical piece of math that can be understood with little more than a basic familiarity with polynomials. This is the kind of stuff I'd loved to have learned in middle school!
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#7One of my favorite Shamir implementations:
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#8Ever since learning about this I've wanted to use it for something, but I've never had the opportunity.
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#9Popular implementations:
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#10It's amazing how this is a practical piece of math that can be understood with little more than a basic familiarity with polynomials. This is the kind of stuff I'd loved to have learned in middle school!
It was used in my college Discrete Math class (a version specifically aimed at Computer Science students) as an exercise in formally proving the properties of a real-life system. That was a fun lecture :-D