[HN] Shamir Secret Sharing – how PayPal nearly died
[HN] Shamir Secret Sharing – how PayPal nearly died
max.levch.in Shamir Secret Sharing
It’s 3am. Paul, the head of PayPal database administration carefully enters his elaborate passphrase at a keyboard in a darkened cubicle of 1840 Embarcadero Road in East Palo Alto, for the fifth time....
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I only understood about 60% of what I was reading, but this was really interesting.