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by the_dege 3178 days ago
The most interesting features are:

    - Printable Emergency Sheet
    - a function to search for similar passwords
1 comments
polleroo 3178 days ago
I came here hoping that the emergency sheet feature was an implementation of Shamir Secret Sharing. That would allow you to give a few sheets to trusted people, which they could combine to reveal your password.
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StavrosK 3178 days ago
You can do that with any number of utilities, though. Why does it have to be built in to KeePass?
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polleroo 3178 days ago
True, but they don't seem obviously inter-operable (at least to non-technical users).

The same parameters input into two online SSSS generators: 3 parts( 2 reqd), secret=hackernews yield different parts.

I want to make it easy to recover. Using the same tool to store the passwords and recover the keys simplifies the process.

[1]: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ [2]: https://iancoleman.github.io/shamir/

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the_dege 3178 days ago
That's awesome, I didn't know that algorithm!
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