#sss

An implementation of Shamir's secret sharing for use as a Python library or from a terminal.

CAUTION: The cryptography in this implementation has not been reviewed or audited in any way. Use it at your own risk.

#Installation

$ pip3 install git+https://git.sr.ht/~fluix/sss

#CLI Usage

$ sss
sss: Shamir's secret sharing implementation

#Generation

usage: sss gen [-h] [-n SHARES] [-k THRESHOLD] [--validate] secret

positional arguments:
  secret                Secret to split into shares

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n SHARES, --shares SHARES
                        Shares to be created (default: 5)
  -k THRESHOLD, --threshold THRESHOLD
                        Shares required to recover secret (default: 3)
  --validate            Verify that any combination of threshold shares recovers secret. (default: False)

#Sample

A sample run with the secret testing123 looks as such:

$ python3 -m sss gen testing123
Generating shares... Done!

sss-v0-SHARE-n1-e89-IorIxat1qcINz6M=
sss-v0-SHARE-n2-e89-CPaLM2DZ5k8aWSs=
sss-v0-SHARE-n3-e89-AbO3rLyUliQOVs7K
sss-v0-SHARE-n4-e89-ASLOLWFGqmL_wzCC
sss-v0-SHARE-n5-e89-VjoNIXcWoyNfflI=

Any 3 of these 5 can be used to recover the secret.

#Recovery

usage: sss rec [-h] shares [shares ...]

positional arguments:
  shares      Shares to recover secret from

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

#Sample

Using any three of the shares (in this case numbers 1, 3, and 5) from the previous sample returns the secret:

$ python3 -m sss rec sss-v0-SHARE-n1-e89-IorIxat1qcINz6M= sss-v0-SHARE-n3-e89-AbO3rLyUliQOVs7K sss-v0-SHARE-n5-e89-VjoNIXcWoyNfflI=
testing123

#Library Usage

TODO; for now, see class and method docstrings.

#License

sss is licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE.

Copyright (c) 2021 Steven Guikal