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From: Chris Beams <chris@beams.io>
In-Reply-To: <1701792.nYQmSeReja@crushinator>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:54:27 +0100
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To: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret
	Sharing of Bitcoin private keys
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Enlightening; thanks, Matt. And apologies to the list for my earlier =
inadvertent double-post.

On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock.name> =
wrote:

> On Saturday, 29 March 2014, at 10:08 am, Chris Beams wrote:
>> Matt, could you expand on use cases for which you see Shamir's Secret =
Sharing Scheme as the best tool for the job? In particular, when do you =
see that it would be superior to simply going with multisig in the first =
place? Perhaps you see these as complimentary approaches, toward =
defense-in-depth? In any case, the Motivation and Rationale sections of =
the BIP in its current form are silent on these questions.
>=20
> I have added two new sections to address your questions.
>=20
> https://github.com/whitslack/btctool/blob/bip/bip-xxxx.mediawiki


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