README.md

Secret Sharing

A system for sharing secrets using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme.

Sample Usage

Creating secrets from strings

>>> from secretsharing.shamir import Secret
>>> secret = Secret.from_printable_ascii("Hello, world!")
>>> secret.as_printable_ascii()
'Hello, world!'
>>> secret.as_int()
43142121247394322427211362L

Creating secrets from integers

>>> secret = Secret(43142121247394322427211362L)

Spliting secrets into shares

>>> shares = secret.split(3, 5)
>>> for s in shares:
... 	print s:
...
01-762cfaba2802c2191e486f
02-1762f2ca77fbd06de2565c4
03-123b648dc47453748d24662
04-17ec24f587e9b535924ea48
05-8753401c25bf5b0f1d5177

Recovering secrets from shares

>>> recovered_shares = ['02-1762f2ca77fbd06de2565c4', '04-17ec24f587e9b535924ea48', '05-8753401c25bf5b0f1d5177']
>>> recovered_secret = Secret.from_shares(recovered_shares)
>>> recovered_secret.as_printable_ascii()
'Hello, world!'