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@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ Q) How does this work?
A) This uses the [Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing) to break an encryption key into parts that can be recombined to create the original key, but only requiring a certain threshold to do so. I've adapted Hashicorp's implementation from their [vault repo](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault)
Q) How is the key generated
A) Using the Go stdlib's crypto/rand `Read` function
## You can help!
I don't have much time to work on Horcrux but I'm happy to review PRs. One issue you may want to tackle is https://github.com/jesseduffield/horcrux/issues/4 which relates to data integrity.
## Alternatives
* [ssss](http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/). Works for keys but (as far as I know) not files themselves.