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0 pointsZakharov13y ago0 comments

Just a spur of the moment thought, but can you encrypt the master password such that you need passwords from three of four (or any N of M) people to decrypt it?

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gjm1113y ago

Yes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing; if you know a bit of mathematics, Shamir's method is particularly elegant.

einhverfr13y ago

You can, but then key management is a bitch.....

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