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NAME

Crypt::SSSS - implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing System.

SYNOPSIS

# use (3, 3) scheme
my $shares = ssss_distribute(
message => "\x06\x1c\x08",
k => 3,
);
# Save shares
for my $share (1 .. 3) {
open my $fh, '>', "share${share}.dat";
print $fh $shares->{$share}->binary;
close $fh;
}
# Reconstruct message
my $ishares = {};
for my $share (1 .. 3) {
open my $fh, '<', "share${share}.dat";
$ishares->{$share} = do {
local $/; # slurp!
<$fh>;
};
close $fh;
}
print "Original message: ", sprintf '"\x%02x\x%02x\x%02x"',
unpack('C*', ssss_reconstruct(p => 257, shares => $ishares));

DESCRIPTION

Implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme.

ATTRIBUTES

Crypt::SSSS implements the following attributes.

ssss_distribute

my $shares = ssss_distribute(
message => $message,
k => $k,
p => $p, # 257 by default
n => $n, # By default equals to k
);

Distribute $message to $n shares, so that any $k shares would be enough to reconstruct the secret. $p is a prime number.

Returns hashref of Crypt::SSSS::Message.

ssss_reconstruct

my $secret = ssss_reconstruct(
shares => $shares,
p => $p, # 257 by default
);

Reconstruct message from given $shares. $p is a prime number used to distribute message.

AUTHOR

Sergey Zasenko, undef@cpan.org.

CREDITS

Mohammad S Anwar (MANWAR)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2011, 2016, Sergey Zasenko.

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.