From c2f292bd5b75e4a9336136d9c46cb19cd3425d4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Langbein Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 14:09:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update README.md --- README.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8d83ba2..581663d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -62,3 +62,12 @@ cat secret.txt.split-text.txt.merged.txt ## Notes * https://en.wikipedia.org/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing + +Manually reconstructing the secret from k strings: + +* For each string of the k strings + * Create a file which name begins with `part` and ends with a dot and the first three characters of the string + * For example `part.112` + * Convert the 3rd to last character from base64 to binary and insert it into the file +* Execute `gfcombine part.*` +* The file `part` contains the reconstructed secret