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sharesecret - Splits and recalculates secrets

Sharesecret splits a secret into some parts, given a threshold. It can recalculate the secret by joining threshold parts. If somebody knows only threshold - 1 parts, he knows only the length of the secret.

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Web pagehttp://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/m5/sk/sharesecret.html
Source tarball ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/crypto/sharesecret-0.2.0.tar.gz
Version 0.4.0 (stable) released on 2001-01-26
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

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Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Build prerequisitesmake
Weak prerequisitesGNU Nana, GNU PG

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-30
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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