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SSSaaS / sssa-golang

Shamir's Secret Sharing Algorithm - helper cryptography module for Golang
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sssa-golang

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An implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing Algorithm in Go 

Copyright (C) 2015 Alexander Scheel, Joel May, Matthew Burket  
See Contributors.md for a complete list of contributors.  
Licensed under the MIT License.

Usage

Note: this library is for a pure implementation of SSS in Go; if you are looking for the API Library for SSSaaS, look here.

sssa.Create(minimum int, shares int, raw string) - creates a set of shares

sssa.Combine(shares []string) - combines shares into secret

For more detailed documentation, check out docs/sssa.md.

Contributing

We welcome pull requests, issues, security advice on this library, or other contributions you feel are necessary. Feel free to open an issue to discuss any questions you have about this library.

This is the reference implementation for all other SSSA projects. Please make sure all tests pass before submitting a pull request. In particular, go test will run all internal tests and the go-libtest suite's tests should be run against the changes before submission.

For security issues, send a GPG-encrypted email to alexander.m.scheel@gmail.com with public key 0xBDC5F518A973035E.