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shea256 / secret-sharing

A system for securely splitting secrets with Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
MIT License
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Very long secrets #22

Open Trinkwut opened 6 years ago

Trinkwut commented 6 years ago

Hai,

is it possbile to have secrets longer than 500 chars (plaintext?)

Thx and greetings,

fionafibration commented 5 years ago

I'd recommend encrypting the data using a secure symmetric cipher, and using the key for the symmetric cipher as the secret to be shared, and then bundling the encrypted data with each share.