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Life & fun · February 24, 2021

Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing

Split and recompose secrets with Shamir Secret Sharing

Horcrux, a Playground for Shamir Secret Sharing launched on February 24, 2021 with 151 votes, #209 of 3,133 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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Horcrux is a playground application for experimenting with Shamir Secret Sharing, a cryptographic technique for dividing secrets into multiple shares. Launched in 2021, it allows users to explore how this method works by creating shared secrets and reconstructing them from component parts. The tool is designed for anyone interested in understanding secret-sharing cryptography through hands-on experimentation, making the complex mathematical concepts accessible and interactive.

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