./security/libgfshare, Library to implement Shamirs secret sharing scheme

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Branch: pkgsrc-2014Q4, Version: 1.0.5, Package name: libgfshare-1.0.5, Maintainer: agc

In simple terms, this package provides a library for implementing the
sharing of secrets and two tools for simple use-cases of the
algorithm. The library implements what is known as Shamir's method
for secret sharing in the Galois Field 2^8. In slightly simpler words,
this is N-of-M secret-sharing byte-by-byte. Essentially this allows
us to split a secret S into any M shares S1..SM such that any N of
those shares can be used to reconstruct S but any less than N shares
yields no information whatsoever.

Master sites:

SHA1: 379dd54d198df300ecbd3d848d7e3f092fd60b9f
RMD160: b95284bd5c531de89f7fa07bf5faaa22afc38c52
Filesize: 232.439 KB

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