🚀🤓 Oh wow, Shamir's Secret Sharing from 1979! Because nothing says cutting-edge like a method older than most of the internet itself. So, split a secret into pieces to keep it safe—groundbreaking! 🤯🔐 Clearly, the core idea fits on a page because nobody could be bothered to write more than a few lines on ancient tech. 📜💤
https://ente.com/blog/how-shamirs-secret-sharing-works/ #ShamirsSecretSharing #AncientTech #CyberSecurity #DataProtection #TechHistory #HackerNews #ngated

haha, #levchin backthen cto of #paypal shares a story about #solaris and #linux incompatibility leading to a scary fail of #shamirssecretsharing of the business-crown-jewels: https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing