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Explore "Shamir's secret" to share the backup encryption key amongs friends #1033

Closed yunohost-bot closed 4 months ago

yunohost-bot commented 6 years ago

Original Redmine Issue: 1034

Author Name: Bram

https://social.freedombone.net/notice/469008

On the secret sharing stuff, !Freedombone also uses Shamir's secret via libgfshare to split keys and distribute them among remote backups. That way if your house gets swept away in a tsunami and you lose absolutely all material possessions it's still possible to recover all your data.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2017/Fahrplan/events/8885.html

alexAubin commented 4 months ago

Sounds fancy but it's been 6 years and we ain't gonna do it, we don't even have encryption yet