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Simple Shamir's Secret Sharing (s4) - A go package giving a easy to use interface for the shamir's secret sharing algorithm

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What it is

Simple Shamir's Secret Sharing (s4) - A go package giving a easy to use interface for the shamir's secret sharing algorithm

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-06-16 21:58:27 UTC to 2020-06-18 00:48:00 UTC.

012020-06-16 21:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-16 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 16, 21:002020-06-16 22:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-16 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-16 23:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-06-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 01:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 02:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 03:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 04:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 05:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 06:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 07:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 08:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 09:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 10:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 17, 10:002020-06-17 11:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 12:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 13:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 14:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 15:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 16:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 17:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 18:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 19:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 20:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 21:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 22:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-17 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-17 23:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-18 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 18, 00:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Jun 16, 21:002020-06-16 21:00:00 UTC2020-06-16 22:00:00 UTC101
Jun 16, 22:002020-06-16 22:00:00 UTC2020-06-16 23:00:00 UTC000
Jun 16, 23:002020-06-16 23:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 17, 00:002020-06-17 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 01:00:00 UTC000
Jun 17, 01:002020-06-17 01:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 02:00:00 UTC000
Jun 17, 02:002020-06-17 02:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 03:00:00 UTC000
Jun 17, 03:002020-06-17 03:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 04:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 17, 05:002020-06-17 05:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 06:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 17, 18:002020-06-17 18:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 19:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 17, 22:002020-06-17 22:00:00 UTC2020-06-17 23:00:00 UTC000
Jun 17, 23:002020-06-17 23:00:00 UTC2020-06-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 18, 00:002020-06-18 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-18 01:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
lioeters·Jun 18, 2020
Yesterday there was a Show HN about a purely client-side (?) implementation of Shamir's secret sharing algorithm. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23541949 https://github.com/simonfrey/s4 Additional references from the app's About page. - What is Key Sharding? Shamir’s Secret Sharing Explained (Easy) https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TQ-DsEZBuQY - Shamir's Secret Sharing - Solution and alternative to Lagrange (More in-depth) https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rWPZoz0aux4
In Postbank to replace 12M bank cards after employees steal 'master key'

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