From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxGj-00023X-32 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:42:09 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.48]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1WTxGh-0007Vx-QZ for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:42:09 +0000 Received: from omta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.36]) by qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id jTCi1n0040mv7h055Vi2fZ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:42:02 +0000 Received: from crushinator.localnet ([IPv6:2601:6:4800:47f:219:d1ff:fe75:dc2f]) by omta11.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id jVi11n00a4VnV2P3XVi2F0; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:42:02 +0000 From: Matt Whitlock To: Roy Badami Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:42:01 -0400 Message-ID: <8171920.tjDNGQmgQK@crushinator> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.3 (Linux/3.12.13-gentoo; KDE/4.12.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140329172815.GH62995@giles.gnomon.org.uk> References: <5336FBE7.7030209@gmail.com> <20140329172815.GH62995@giles.gnomon.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, no trust [76.96.62.48 listed in list.dnswl.org] 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WTxGh-0007Vx-QZ Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:42:09 -0000 On Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 5:28 pm, Roy Badami wrote: > Right now there are also people simply taking base58-encoded private > keys and running them through ssss-split. > > It has a lot going for it, since it can easily be reassembled on any > Linux machine without special software (B Poettering's Linux command > line SSSS implementation[1] seems to be included in most Linux distros). > > roy > > [1] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ Respectfully, it's also possible to take a base58-encoded private key and run it through GPG, which is included in most Linux distros. But yet we have BIP38.